00:13Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?
00:20The father it is with his infant so dear.
00:26He holdeth the boy tightly clasped in his arm.
00:33He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm.
00:41My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide?
00:48Look, father, the Earl King is close by our side.
00:54Doth see not the Earl King with crown and with train?
01:01My son, tis the mist rising over the plain.
01:10O come thou dear infant, O come thou with me.
01:17For many a game I will play there with thee.
01:23On my strand lovely flowers, their blossoms unfold.
01:31My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.
01:37My father, my father, and dost thou not hear?
01:44The words that the Earl King now breathes in my ear.
01:50Be calm, dearest child, tis thy fancy deceives.
01:57Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.
02:03Wilt go then, dear infant, wilt go with me there.
02:10My daughter shall tend thee with sisterly care.
02:16My daughters, by night their glad festival keep.
02:23They'll dance thee and rock thee and sing thee to sleep.
02:29My father, my father, my father, and dost thou not see?
02:36How the Earl King his daughters has brought here for me?
02:43My darling, my darling, I see it aright.
02:51Tis the aged grey willows deceiving thy sight.
03:11I love thee, I'm charmed by thy beauty, dear boy.
03:19And if thou's unwilling, then force I'll employ.
03:28My father, my father, he seizes me fast.
03:35Full sorely, the Earl King has hurt me at last.
03:43The father now gallops with terror half-wild.
03:49He grasps in his arms the poor shuddering child.
03:56He reaches his courtyard with toil and with dread.
04:02The child in his arms finds he motionless dead.
04:09He's gone to bed.
04:12He's gone to bed.
04:12The child in his arms the poor and with dreadful.
04:12He'll have lifted up his head.
04:13You
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