Ballads, Lyrics, and Poems of Old France by Unknown
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I change to a milk white doe.
'They hunt me through the green forest With hounds and hunting men; And ever it is my fair brother That is so fierce and keen.' * * * * * 'Good-morrow, mother.' 'Good-morrow, son; Where are your hounds so good?' Oh, they are hunting a white doe Within the glad greenwood. 'And three times have they hunted her, And thrice she's won away; The fourth time that they follow her That white doe they shall slay.' * * * * * * Then out and spoke the forester, As he came from the wood, 'Now never saw I maid's gold hair Among the wild deer's blood. 'And I have hunted the wild deer In east lands and in west; And never saw I white doe yet That had a maiden's breast.' |
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