The Traveler and the Hill, and the Hill, Lyn Hejinian and Emilie Clark

There was once a charcoal burner
who had a son and the son was
a charcoal burner too

                There the two sat and the maiden
                        sitting between them spoke not
                        a word but the fire shone on
                        her face and the son could see
                        her great beauty

After that neither praying nor pleading helped

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