Kreatur
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Hello everyone!
This is a passage from the traditional ballad "The water is wide":
This is a passage from the traditional ballad "The water is wide":
I cannot understand the meaning of the line "But love grows old and waxes cold". What do "waxes cold" mean? I haven't found any suitable definition in dictionaries for "wax". I also tried to find the word in the dictionary of Middle English but failed.Oh love be handsome and love be kind
Gay as a jewel when first it is new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew