"Come this night to thy lady's bower; Ask no bold Baron's leave. '"He lifts his spear with the truth; His lady is all alone; The door she'll undo to her knight so true On the eve of good Saint John." '"I cannot come, I must not come, I dare not come to thee; On the eve of good Saint John I must wander alone,." '"Now out on thee, fainthearted knight! Thou shouldst not say me nay; For the eve is sweet, and when lovers meet Is worth the whole summer's day. '"And I'll chain the blood-hound, and the warder shall not sound, And rushes shall be strew'd on the stair; So, by the black rood-stone, and by holy Saint John, I conjure thee, my love, to be there!" "Though the blood-hound be mute, and the rush beneath my foot, And the warder his bugle should not blow, Yet there sleepeth a priest in the chamber to the east, And my footstep he would know. ' "О fear not the priest, who sleepeth to the east, For to Dryburgh the way he has ta'en; And there to say mass, till three days do pass, For the soul of a knight that is slayne." "He who says the mass-rite for the soul of that knight May as well say mass for me. '"At the lone midnight hour, when bad spirits have power, In thy chamber will I be." With that he was gone, and my lady left alone, And no more did I see.'