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“A steed. And so I rode away
 Upon a palfrey by his side.
He brought me to his palace gay;
 More beautiful I never spied.
 He showed me castles, rivers wide,
Towers, and vast forests, mead and plain,
 Again to horse, again we ride,
And so he brought me home again.

“And hither to our orchard borne
 He let me down and said to me,
‘See, lady, that to-morrow morn
 Thou art beneath this self-same tree;
 Then thou shalt go with us and be
For aye with us in fairy land; .
 And if thou failest, woe to thee,
For thou shalt feel the fairies’ hand!’

“‘Where’er thou art thy limbs shall fail,
 No man shalt thou find piteous;

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