Fiddling Metric
Have you seen Angélique, What way she went? A white robe she wore, A flickering light near spent Her pale hand bore. Have you seen Angélique? Will she know the place Dead feet must find, The grave-cloth on her face To make her blind? Have you seen Angélique. . . At night I hear her moan, And I shiver in my bed; She wanders all alone, She cannot find the dead. Angélique "There'll be no roof to shelter you; You'll have no where to lay your head. And who will get your food for you? Star-dust pays for no man's bread. So, Jacky, come give me your fiddle If ever you mean to thrive. " "I'll have the skies to shelter me, The green grass it shall be my bed, And happen I'll find somewhere for me A sup of drink, a bit of bread; And I'll not give my fiddle To any man alive . " And it's out he went across the wold, His fiddle tucked beneath his chin, And (golden bo...