  I heard my love go laughing Beyond the bolted door, I saw my love go riding Across the windy moor, And I would give my love no word Because of evil tales I heard. Let fancy men go laughing, Let light men ride away, Bruised corn is not for my mill, What’s paid I will not pay,— And so I thought because of this Gossip that poisoned clasp and kiss. Four hundred men went riding, And he the best of all, A jolly man for labour, A sinewy man and tall; I watched him go beyond the hill, And shaped my anger with my will. At night my love came riding Across the dusky moor, And other two rode with him Who knocked my bolted door, And called me out and bade me see How quiet a man a man could be. And now the tales that stung me And gave my pride its rule, Are worth a beggar’s broken shoe Or the sermon of a fool, And all I know and all I can Is, false or true, he was my man. |
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