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Did I abuse her or show her disdain

Why does she run from me

If I should lose her how shall I regain

The heart she has won from me

Agony, beyond power of speech

When the one thing you want

Is the only thing out of your reach

High in her tower she sits by the hour

Maintaining her hair

Blithe and becoming and frequently humming

A light-hearted air

Ah

Agony, far more painful than yours

When you know she would go with you

If there only were doors

Agony, all the torture they teach

What’s as intruiging or half so fatiguing

As what’s out of reach

Am I not sensitive, clever

Well-mannered, considerate

Passionate, charming

As kind as I’m handsome

And heir to a throne?

You are everything maidens could wish for

Then why no

Do I know?

The girl must be mad

You know nothing of madness

'Til you’re climbing her hair

And you see her up there as you’re nearing her

And all the while hearing her

Ah

Agony, misery, though it’s different for each

Always ten steps behind, always ten steps below

And she’s just out of reach

Agony, that can cut like a knife

I must have her to wife

High in a tower like yours was but higher

A beauty asleep

All 'round the tower a thicket of briar

A hundred feet deep

Agony, no frustration more keen

When the one thing you want

Is a thing that you’ve not even seen

I’ve found a casket entirely of glass

No, it’s unbreakable

Inside, don’t ask it, a maiden alas

Just as unwakeable

What unmistakeable

Agony, is the way always hard

She has skin white as snow

Did you learn her name, no

There’s a dwarf standing guard

Agony such that princes must weep

Always in thrall 'most to anything almost

Or something asleep

If it were not for the thicket

A thicket’s no trick, is it thick

It’s the thickest

The quickest is pick it apart with a stick

Yes but even one prick, it’s my thing about blood

Well it’s sick

It’s no sicker than your thing about dwarfs

Dwarves

Dwarfs

Dwarves are very upsetting

Not forgetting

The task’s unachievable, mountains unscalable

If it’s conceivable but unavailable

Ah

Agony, misery, woe not to know what you miss

While they lie there for years

And you cry on their biers

What unbearable bliss

Agony that can cut like a knife

Ah well, back to my wife

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