My Amazon.

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I. My Love is a lady fair and free, A lady fair from over the sea, And she hath eyes that pierce my breast And rob my spirit of peace and rest. II. A youthful warrior, warm and young, She takes me prisoner with her tongue, Aye! and she keeps me, - on parole, - Till paid the ransom of my soul. III. I swear the foeman, arm'd for war From cap--pie, with many a scar, More mercy finds for prostrate foe Than she who deals me never a blow. IV. And so 'twill be, this many a day; She comes to wound, if not to slay. But in my dreams, - in honied sleep, - 'Tis I to smile, and she to weep!

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