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"Now did you mark a falcon, / Sister dear, sister dear, / Flying toward my window / In the morning cool and clear? / With jingling bells about her neck, / But what beneath her wing? / It may have been a ribbon, / Or it may have been a ring. " -- / "I marked a falcon swooping / At the break of day: / And for your love, my sister dove, / I 'frayed the thief away. " --
"Or did you spy a ruddy hound, / Sister fair and tall, / Went snuffing round my garden bound, / Or crouched by my bower wall? / With a silken leash about his neck; / But in his mouth may be / A chain of gold and silver links, / Or a letter writ to me. " -- / "I heard a hound, high-born sister, / Stood baying at the moon: / I rose and drove him from your wall / Lest you should wake too soon. " --