XI + 

I’ll give you the best help I can: + 

Before you up the mountain go, + 

Up to the dreary mountaintop, + 

I’ll tell you all I know. + 

’Tis now some two-and-twenty years + 

Since she (her name is Martha Ray) + 

Gave with a maiden’s true good will + 

Her company to Stephen Hill; + 

And she was blithe and gay, + 

And she was happy, happy still + 

Whene’er she thought of Stephen Hill. + 