| Though the night be dark as dungeon, not a star to be seen above
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| I will be guided without a stumble, into the arms of me only love.
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| I went up to her bedroom window, kneeling gently upon a stone
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| I rapped on her bedroom window «My darling dear, do you lie alone»?
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| I’m a rover, seldom sober
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| I’m a rover of high degree
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| Ans when I’m drinking, I’m always thinking
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| How to gain my love’s company.
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| She raised her head up from her feather pillow, raised her arms up around her
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| breast,
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| Saying «Who's at me bedroom window, disturbing me at me long night’s rest?
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| «It's only me, your own true lover, open the door and please let me in.
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| For I have come on a long night’s journey. |
| I am near drenched to the skin».
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| She opened the door with the greatest pleasure, opened the door and she let me in We both shook hands and embraced each other. |
| 'Til the morning we lay as one.
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| «Well now me love, I must go and leave you, though the mountains be high above
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| Well, I will climb them with greater pleasure that I have been with me only
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| love». |