Came a pretty maid

Came a pretty maid
  By the moon's pure light,
Loved me well, she said,
  Eyes with tears all bright,
    A pretty maid!

But too late she strayed,
  Moonlight pure was there;
She was [naught]1 but shade,
  Hiding the more fair,
    The heavenly maid!

by Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) , under the pseudonym George Eliot, no title, from The Spanish Gypsy, published 1868

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by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Came a pretty maid", op. 1 no. 5, from Eight songs from "The Spanish Gypsy", no. 5.

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