Identifier: childrensballads00bate (find matches)
Title: Children's ballads from history and folklore
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Bates, Clara Doty, 1838-1895 McDermott, Jessie
Subjects: Ballads
Publisher: Boston : D. Lothrop & co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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Gladly forth from every quarter,Soldier, burgher, all outpour. Marching in strait ranks and serried.Marching on from door to door; Bearing silken standards, crimson,Gold, of Nurembergan blue Famous as the Tvrian purple,— As tis told I tell it you — Bearing banks of spears uplifted. Treading sturdily alway.Guild on guild, the cobbler, blacksmith \one were wantinfr on that day. None ? No — think you little childrenFailed to lend their piquant grace To their countrys pageant ? Doubter IThey too had their time and place. In among the moving column,Heads erect and eyes intent. Gallantly, most gallantly, Marched the Cock-Horse Regiment! Clad in royal Genoa velvets, Ostrich plumes, and Flanders lace. Gems that sparkled as they rode by— Children of patrician race
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Side by side with peasants sturdy,Each boy waving with a toss High in air his cutlass tiny,Each upon his hobby-horse. So on swept the grand processionPast the castle where now stands As then stood the lofty lindenSet by Kunigundes hands ; Past the house where Diirer painted,Where with patient skill he wrought Drew his wondrous Burgomaster,Truth and reverence in his thought: (There still stands his ancient tombstone, Emigravit carved thereon ; Gone, not dead, the legend runneth — Nurembergs own dearest son.) Past the high and stately Rath-HausWith its dungeons darlc and deep, With its dreadful torture-chamber,Torture that did murder sleep; Past the peasants well-beloved — Little Goose-man is his name — Flowing fountain, geese and goose-man,Still beloved, and known to fame.

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