“For you alone I ride the ring,
For you I wear the blue;
For you alone I strive to sing,
O tell me how to woo!”

—  Robert Cunninghame-Grahame of Gartmore

If Doughty Deeds ("If daughty deeds my lady pleases."), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1939)

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