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By Chance it Was
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Clannad
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By chance it was I met my love
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It did me much surprise
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Down by a shady myrtle grove
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Just as the sun did rise.
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The birds they sang right gloriously
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And pleasent was the air
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And there was non save she and I
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among the flowers fair.
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In dewy grass and green we walked
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She timid was and coy
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How can'st thou choose but pity me
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My pretty pearl, my joy
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How comes it that thou stroll this way?
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Sweet maiden tell me true
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Before bright Phoebus' glittering ray
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Has supped the morning dew?
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I go to tend the flocks I love
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The ewes and tender lambs
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That pasture by the myrtle grove
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That gambol by their dams
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There I enjoy a pure content
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At dawning of the day
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Then, hand in hand, we lovers went
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To see the flock at play.
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And as we wended down the road
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I said to her, "Sweet maid,
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Three years I in my place abode
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And three more must be stayed
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The three that I am bound so fast
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O fairest wait for me
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And when the weary years are past
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Then wedded we will be."
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"Three years are long, three times too long
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Too lengthy the delay"
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And then I answered in my song
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"Hope wastes them quick away
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Where love is fervent, fain and fast
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And knoweth not decay
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There nimbly fleet the seasons past
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Accounted as one day."
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