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The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille.
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  While the bride, with roguish eyes,
Sporting with them, now escapes and cries:
  “ Those who catch me
    Married verily
    This year shall be!”

  And all pursue with eager haste,
  And all attain what they pursue,
And touch her pretty apron fresh and new,
  And the linen kirtle round her waist.

  Meanwhile, whence comes it that among
  These youthful maidens fresh and fair,
  So joyous, with such laughing air,
  Baptiste stands sighing, with silent tongue?
  And yet the bride is fair and young!
Is it Saint Joseph would say to us all,
That love, o'er-hasty, precedeth a fall?
  O, no! for a maiden frail, I trow,
  Never bore so lofty a brow!

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