ANONYMOUS
XLV
They shaped him in her arms twa
But and a deer sae wild ; But aye she grips and hau'ds him fast,
The father o' her child.
XLVI
They shaped him in her arms twa
A hot iron at the fire; But aye she grips and hau'ds him fast
To be her heart's desire.
��They shaped him in her arms at last
A mother-naked man , She cast her mantle over him,
And sae her love she wan.
XLVIII Up then spak' the Queen o' Fairies,
Out o' a bush o* broom, 'She that has borrowed young Tarn Lin
Has gotten a stately groom.'
XLIX Out then spak' the Queen o' Fairies,
And an angry woman was she,
- She 's ta'cn awa' the bonniest knight
In a' my companie '
L
c But what I ken this night, Tarn Lin,
Gin I had kent yestreen, I wad ta'en out thy heart o' flesh,
And put in a heart o' stane.
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