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First Line: As I walked out on hallows' e'en
Last Line: And I have a mole where his heart bled.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Deception; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


As I walked out on Hallows' E'en,
I saw the moon swing thin and green;
I saw beside, in Fiddler's Wynd,
Two hands that moved upon a blind.

As I walked out on Martin's Feast,
I heard a woman say to a priest—
'His grave is digged, his shroud is sewn;
And the child shall pass for his very own.'

But whiles they stood beside his tomb,
I heard the babe laugh out in her womb—
'My hair will be black as his was red,
And I have a mole where his heart bled.'





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