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I NEED not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me; / She will wait me there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company.
When I've overgot / The world somewhat, / When things cost not / Such stress and strain, / Is soon enough / By cypress sough / To tell my Love / I am come again.
And if some day, / When none cries nay, / I still delay / To seek her side, / (Though ample measure / Of fitting leisure / Await my pleasure) / She will riot chide.
What-not upbraid me / That I delayed me, / Nor ask what stayed me / So long? Ah, no! - / New cares may claim me, / New loves inflame me, / She will not blame me, / But suffer it so.