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Sailor's Wife's Lament
Purson

Married a sailor today

Soon he is going away

An albino blackbird

Nests by her bedside in sympathy


Waits at the window at night

The light from the lighthouse is bright

It fills her with warm nostalgia

It's all that she has of him


All the girls who knocked say Come out to play

All of the boys in the town woo her with wildberry flowers

Her lily-white charm,

Just like the bird who's keeping her calm,

Will soon fly away



Letters so seldom appear

Her hair's turning grey with the fear

Some say she's insane, they say he's to blame,

Still she waits for him


All the girls who knock said Rise from your bed

Now all the boys in the town mourn her with wildberry flowers

Laid on her grave

And the old bird has nothing to say

He has flown away


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