(1201 - 1253 / France)

Poems of Thibaut de Champagne

1. I can’t prevent myself from singing 4/21/2010
2. Lady, The Fates Command 1/1/2004
3. Love I have served, for such length of time 4/21/2010
4. Mercy, my lady! One thing I ask you, 4/21/2010
5. Pastourelle 1/1/2004

Lady, The Fates Command

Lady, the fates command, and I must go,---
Leaving the pleasant land so dear to me:
Here my heart suffered many a heavy woe:
But what is left to love, thus leaving thee?
Alas! that cruel land beyond the see!
Why thus dividing many a faithful heart,
Never again from pain and sorrow free,
Never again to meet, when thus they part?

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