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The soonest mended, nothing said; / And help may rise from east or west; / But my two hands are lumps of lead, / My heart sits leaden in my breast.
O north wind swoop not from the north, / O south wind linger in the south, / Oh come not raving raging forth, / To bring my heart into my mouth;
For I've a husband out at sea, / Afloat on feeble planks of wood; / He does not know what fear may be; / I would have told him if I could.
I would have locked him in my arms, / I would have hid him in my heart; / For oh! the waves are fraught with harms, / And he and I so far apart.