Identifier: gri_33125012902363 (find matches)
Title: The book of British ballads
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889
Subjects: Ballads, English
Publisher: London : J. How
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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on his white hause-bane,I will pick out his bonnie blue een ;Yell take a tress of his yellow hair,To theak yere nest when it grows bare ;The gowden down on his young chinWill do to rowe my young ones in. O, cauld and bare will his bed beWhen winter storms sing in the tree ;At his head a turf, at his feet a stone,He will sleep, nor hear the maidens moan ;Oer his white bones the birds shall fly,The wild deer bound and foxes cry. James Hogg attempted an imitation of it, which he introduces by the followingremarks, in allusion to Scotts version of the ballad. It appears as if the bard hadfound his power of description inadequate to a detail of the circumstances attendingthe fatal catastrophe, without suffering the interest already roused to subside, and hadartfully consigned it over to the fancy of every reader to paint it what way he chose;or else that he lamented the untimely fate of a knight, whosebase treatment he durstnot otherwise make known than in that short parabolical dialogue.
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J. Franklin del. W, T. Green sc.

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