Of Silk My Gear Was Shapen, Scarlet They Did On Me, Then To The Sea-Strand Was I Borne And Laid In A Bark Of The Sea. O Well Were I From The World Away. Befell It There I Might Not Drown, For God To Me Was Good; The Billows Bare Me Up A-Land Where Grew The Fair Green-Wood. O Well Were I From The World Away. There Came A Knight A-Riding With Three Swains Along The Way And He Took Me Up, The Little-One, On The Sea-Sand As I Lay. O Well Were I From The World Away. He Took Me Up, And Bare Me Home To The House That Was His Own, And There Bode I So Long With Him That I Was His Love Alone. O Well Were I From The World Away. But The Very First Night We Lay Abed Befell His Sorrow And Harm, That Thither Came The King'S Ill Men, And Slew Him On Mine Arm. O Well Were I From The World Away. There Slew They Adalbright The King, Two Of His Swains Slew They, But The Third Sailed Swiftly From The Land Sithence I Saw Him Never A Day. O Well Were I From The World Away. O Wavering Hope Of This World'S Bliss, How Shall Men Trow In Thee? My Grove Of Gems Is Gone Away For Mine Eyes No More To See! O Well Were I From The World Away. Each Hour The While My Life Shall Last Remembereth Him Alone, Such Heavy Sorrow Have I Got From Our Meeting Long Agone. O Well Were I From The World Away. O, Early In The Morning-Tide Men Cry: "Christine The Fair, Art Thou Well Content With That True Love Thou Sittest Loving There?" O Well Were I From The World Away. Ah, Yea, So Well I Love Him, And So Dear My Love Shall Be, That The Very God Of Heaven Aloft Worshippeth Him And Me. O Well Were I From The World Away. "Ah, All The Red Gold I Have Got Well Would I Give To-Day, Only For This And Nothing Else From The World To Win Away." O Well Were I From The World Away. "Nay, Midst All Folk Upon The Earth Keep Thou Thy Ruddy Gold, And Love Withal The Mighty Lord That Wedded Thee Of Old." O Well Were I From The World Away.