I now know why the Willow weeps A tragedy of love it's memory keeps For once a young man and a young maid On tender grass beneath branches lay Though pledged by birth to another From clans they hid to be together Thus the gentle Willow was their choice Meeting beneath, till love they could voice The Willow held these secret lovers dear So would lower it's boughs when they drew near Then tucked away in the Willow's womb Could lay as one, yet this love was doomed For jealousy lurked within the Pines Spying the lovers thus entwined Behind their curtain of slender limbs He swore the maiden would yet be his And so it came to pass one day As the maiden softly maid her way To their Willow deep within the glen She saw the branches did already bend Timidly as she did draw near A sound of sorrow met her ears Parting Willow branches to look within A dampness did touch upon her skin The Willow was shedding sap laden tears For the young man in death was near It was an arrow that had been used A potent poison it's head infused The maiden now blind with grieving mist Removed the arrow, held it clenched in her fist Whilst cradling his head he drew his last breath She did plunge the arrow into her breast And so it is that this is told The Willow's grief could not be consoled For unable to stop what had befell The young love it had hid so well With it's will broken as the lovers lay dead The Willow, it's branches, never again spread And because it is the memory it keeps it is to this day that the Willows weep