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A ring of gold and a milk-white dove / Are goodly gifts for thee, / And a hempen rope for your own love / To hang upon a tree.
For you a House of Ivory, / (Roses are white in the rose-bower)!
A narrow bed for me to lie, / (White, O white, is the hemlock flower)!
Myrtle and jessamine for you, / (O the red rose is fair to see)!
For me the cypress and the rue, / (Fairest of all is rosemary)!
For you three lovers of your hand, / (Green grass where a man lies dead)!
For me three paces on the sand, / (Plant lilies at my head)!