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Shepherdess Dreaming

from The Durham Pilgrims by Hermione Harvestman

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Shepherdess Dreaming (Searching for Lambs #1) (3.46)

As though to illustrate The Monk's tale, a simple Shepherdess tends her scampering flocks in a meadow. Hitherto innocent, she has a dream in which The Devil fills her heart with lustful thoughts in the form of a lustful wolf who carries off one of her lambs. She gives chase, leaving her flock unguarded. But the wolf turns on her and offers her a bargain of the life of the lamb in return for her carnal innocence, telling her to undress so he might better enjoy her. As he slavers over her body The Shepherdess wakes to find all is well, apart from a lustful yearning in her heart. She goes to the river to cool down but as she lies pleasuring herself in the sun afterwards, she sings an old folk song:

I went out one May morning,
One May morning betime,
I met a maid from home had strayed,
Just as the sun did shine
What makes you rise so soon, my dear,
Your journey to pursue?
Your pretty little feet they tread so sweet,
Strike off the morning dew.
I'm going to feed my Father's flock,
His young and tender lambs,
That over hills and over dales
Lie waiting for their dams.
O stay! O stay! you handsome maid,
And rest a moment here,
For there is none but you alone
That I do love so dear.
How gloriously the sun doth shine,
How pleasant is the air;
I'd rather rest on a true love's breast
Than any other where.
For I am thine and thou art mine;
No man shall uncomfort thee.
We'll join our hands in wedded bands
And a-married we will be.

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from The Durham Pilgrims, released July 31, 2013

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Hermione Harvestman UK

'I feel like Wainwright - we are both hermetic ramblers. He made his books for when he was no longer capable of rambling his beloved fells, and I made my music for when I'm no longer able to ramble the by-ways of Albion - but only to listen, and think "Was that really me? That solitary figure who stood in a landscape dreaming of ages past in dread fear of the future."

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