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A troth, and a grief, and a blessing, / Disguised them and came this way -- , / And one was a promise, and one was a doubt, / And one was a rainy day.
And they met betimes with this maiden, / And the promise it spake and lied, / And the doubt it gibbered and hugged itself, / And the rainy day -- she died.