StoryTitle("caps", "Lord Lovel") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(69, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lord Lovel was standing at his stable door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Combing his milk-white steed;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out came lady Nancybell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To wish her lover good speed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, where are you going, Lord Lovel?\" she said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I pray you tell to me:\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, I am going a far journey,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Some strange countrie to see.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And when will you return, Lord Lovel?\" she said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I pray you tell to me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, I'll return in seven long years,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fair Nancybell for to see.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had not been in merry England", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A month but barely three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When languishing thoughts came into his mind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Nancybell fain would he see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So he rode and he rode along the highway", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till he came to yonder town;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He heard the sound of a chapel bell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the ladies were mourning around.", "") ?>
PagePoem(70, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He asked them who it was that was dead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the ladies did him tell:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They said, \"It is fair Nancybell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She died for Lord Lovel.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lid of the coffin he opened up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The linens he folded down,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now he kissed the pale, pale lips, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the tears came trickling down.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, hast thou died, fair Nancybell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oh, hast thou died for me?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, hast thou died, fair Nancybell? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then I will die for thee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lady Nancybell died, as it were, this day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lord Lovel, he died to-morrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lady Nancybell died of pure, pure love, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lord Lovel, he died of sorrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lady Nancy was buried in St. Mary's church, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lord Lovel in the choir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out of her breast there sprang a red rose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And out of Lord Lovel's sweet-briar.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They grew and they grew to the top of the church,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And then they could grow no higher,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They grew till they made a true-lover's knot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For all true lovers to admire.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Old Ballad.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>