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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Only a lady have I seen. Who very kind to me has been ! Oh, that can never be my little maid.Shes only a goose-girl, the old crone said. O mill o mine, O mill o mine, Say, have you seen that girl o mine .■ Only a lady have I seen, Who very kind to me has been ! Oh, that can never be my little maid.She s only a goose-girl, the old crone said. Im glad, said the crone, and I am not sur-prised( She was really a fairy quite closely disguised):Prince Imar no worthier Princess could find,For Dwinas obliging, neat, courteous and kind. Her words were the truth, whether fairy or crone;For of all the Czars that have sat on the throne.Nor annals, nor legends, before then or since.Can tell of a happier Princess and Prince.
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IX.LITTLE PEACHLING. A Japanese Folk-Lore Story. AT tlie foot of the Golden Dragon Hill,Long ages ago, in a snug little houseWith a roof of dark-brown, velvety thatch.There lived an old woodman and his spouse. One morning, his bill-hook the old man took:To the mountain, to cut me a fagot, Ill hie. While you, O Koyo, the linen can washIn the river which rushes and gurgles by. Oh, the merry old man to the mountain hied,Past young rice-fields in the morning sun, Toward the dark fir-trees on the mountain side,Standing forth in its silence, every one. From wild camelias and white plum-trees. In his twinkling old eyes the spider-webs swung; And he merrily brushed by the green bamboos,With his bill-hook over his shoulder hunir.

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