Mary Of Marka.

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Eric of Marka holds the knife: "A nameless death for a nameless life."-- "Mary of Marka, bid him stay, And the morrow shall be our wedding-day."-- "Will the blessing of priest give back my faith, Or life to the child you left to death?"-- Eric of Marka holds the knife, And turns to the mother that is no wife: "Mary of Marka, have your will! Shall I spare him, or shall I kill?"-- "He wrought me wrong when the days were sweet, And he'll get no more but a winding-sheet."

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