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By the Short Cut to the Roses - John McCormack (麦考梅克)

Written by：John McCormack

By the short cut to the roses

A fairy girl I met

I was taken by her beauty

As a fish is in a net

The faun uncovered to look at her

So very fair was she

With her hair as bright as the seaweed

That floats in from the sea

By the short cut to the roses

'Twas on the first of May

I heard the fairies pipin'

And they piped my heart away

They piped till I was mad with joy

But when I was alone

I found my heart was piped away

And in my breast a stone

By the short cut to the roses

'Tis I'll go never more

Lest she should also steal my soul

Who stole my heart before

Lest she take my soul and crush it

Like a dead heap in her hand

For the short cut to the roses

Is the road to fairyland