Maid, I Will Follow Thee Through Life

"I tell thee, i will follow thee to the ends of the earth. Lord, how my tongue runs on for one moety of that affection,. perhaps a happier woman has," she writes. "For pity on us both, stand up and dry your tears, believe me, dear maid, where i go you cannot come." The tale was told by an unnamed soldier who fell in love with 'a white-cheeked maid' But when he met her at nightfall his heart had already been broken.