Edward Gray

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

　　

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Sweet Emma Moreland of yonder town Met me walking on yonder way; ‘And have you lost your heart?’ she said; ‘And are you married yet, Edward Gray?’ Sweet Emma Moreland spoke to me; Bitterly weeping I turn’d away: ‘Sweet Emma Moreland, love no more Can touch the heart of Edward Gray. ‘Ellen Adair she loved me well, Against her father’s and mother’s will; To-day I sat for an hour and wept By Ellen’s grave, on the windy hill. ‘Shy she was, and I thought her cold, Thought her proud, and fled over the sea; Fill’d I was with folly and spite, When Ellen Adair was dying for me. ‘Cruel, cruel the words I said! Cruelly came they back to-day: “You’re too slight and fickle,” I said, “To trouble the heart of Edward Gray.” ‘There I put my face in the grass– Whisper’d, “Listen to my despair; I repent me of all I did; Speak a little, Ellen Adair!” ‘Then I took a pencil, and wrote On the mossy stone, as I lay, “Here lies the body of Ellen Adair; And here the heart of Edward Gray!” ‘Love may come, and love may go, And fly, like a bird, from tree to tree; But I will love no more, no more, Till Ellen Adair come back to me. ‘Bitterly wept I over the stone; Bitterly weeping I turn’d away. There lies the body of Ellen Adair! And there the heart of Edward Gray!’

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