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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/26788-0.txt b/26788-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5102f10 --- /dev/null +++ b/26788-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,929 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Brown William, Edited by Thomas J. Wise, +Translated by George Borrow + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Brown William + The Power of the Harp and Other Ballads + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26788] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BROWN WILLIAM*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + BROWN WILLIAM + THE POWER OF THE HARP + AND + OTHER BALLADS + + + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1913 + + _Copyright in the United States of America_ + _by Houghton_, _Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_. + + + + +BROWN WILLIAM + + +_This ballad was written in consequence of the execution of William +Christian_, _generally called William Donn_, _or Brown William_, _from +the darkness of his complexion_, _who was shot at Hango Hill_, _near +Castletown_, _in the Isle of Man_, _shortly after the Restoration_, _for +alleged treason to the Derby family_, _who long possessed the sovereignty +of Man_. . . ._ The ballad of_ “_Brown William_,” _which gives an account +of the betrayal of the poor patriot_, _and the vengeance taken by the +hand of God upon his murderers_, _is the most popular of all the wild +songs of Ellan Vannin_. + +Let no one in greatness too confident be, +Nor trust in his kindred, though high their degree; +For envy and rage will lay any man low: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +Thou wast the Receiver of Mona’s fair state, +Thy conduct was noble, thy wisdom was great, +And ne’er of thy rule did she weariness show: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +Thy right hand was Earley, and Theah thy right eye; +Thy state caused thy foemen with rage to swell high; +And envy and rage will lay any man low: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +How blest thy condition in fair Ronaldsway! +Thy mansion, how stately! thy garden, how gay! +But oh! what disasters from envy do flow: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +’Twas said at thy trial, by men void of faith, +The king, by a letter, demanded thy death; +The jury was frighten’d, and dared not say “No!” +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +The clan of wild Colcad could ne’er be at rest +Whilst the race of Christeen their own acres possess’d; +And envy and spite will bring any man low: +Thy murder Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +A band of adulterers, curst and unholy, +For Ronaldsway lust, as they did for Logh Molley; +Of Naboth, the tragedy’s played here anew: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +Not one of the band but received his just meed, +Who acted a part in that damnable deed; +To dwindle away the whole band was not slow: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +To Callaghyn-doo, and to Vannyster roam, +And call on the Colcad till hoarse ye become; +Gone, gone is the name so well known long ago: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +A cripple was Robin for many years long, +Who troubled and bullied the island when strong; +His own friends of tending him weary did grow: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +Sly Richard took ship with thy blood on his hand, +But God can avenge on the sea as on land; +The waves would not bear him, but whelm’d him, I trow: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +And now, if a few of the seed do remain, +They’re vile as the thistles and briars of the plain; +They ply for their neighbours the pick and the hoe: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +Should ye walk through all Man you’ll find no one, I reckon, +To mourn for the name that was once in Beemachan; +But thousands of poor who rejoice that ’tis low: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +Proceed to Creganyn, and Balla-logh green, +But where’s there a Colcad to bid ye walk in? +By strangers their homes and their lands are held now: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +Great Scarlett, in wealth who dwelt down by the bay, +Must toil now with paupers for sixpence a-day; +And oft, as I’ve heard, has no morsel to chew: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +The band by whose weapons the great Cæsar died +Were hunted by foes, and all peace were denied; +Not one died the death of kind Nature, O, no! +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +So it fared with the band by whom Willie did die, +Their lands are a waste, their names stink to the sky; +They melted like rime in the ruddy sun’s glow: +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +But comfort I take, for ’tis common report +There are shoots of dear Will who are sitting at court, +Who have punished his foes by king’s mandate, although +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe. + +O, ’tis pleasant to think, when one’s wither’d and grey, +There’s race of Brown William in fair Ronaldsway, +That his foemen are crush’d, and their faces can’t show, +While the clan of Christeen have no trouble or woe. {10} + +To the counsellors false, both in church and in state, +Bear the public of Mona both loathing and hate, +Who set man against man, and the peace would break now, +As thy murder, Brown William, broke hearts long ago. + +The lord of our island, Duke Athol the great, +They would gladly persuade, with their parle and their prate, +The corner-stones high of his house to lay low, +And to King, Duke and Mona are foemen, I trow. + + + + +THE POWER OF THE HARP + + +Sir Peter would forth from the castle ride, +Grieving and weeping did sit his young bride. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“Art grieving for saddle, or steed black or white, +Or because I have wed thee art thou in this plight?” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“I grieve not for saddle, or steed black or white, +Nor because thou hast wed me am I in this plight.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“Dost sorrow because little wealth I have got, +Or dost sorrow because thine equal I’m not?” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“I sorrow not because little of wealth thou hast got, +Nor grieve I because thou mine equal art not.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“Dost sorrow because thy fond father is dead, +Or dost sorrow because thou’rt no longer a maid?” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“I grieve not because my dear father is dead, +Nor sorrow I because that I am not a maid.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“I grieve and I weep, and to grieve I have need, +I know but too well what for me is decreed.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“For the bridge, the broad bridge, I sorrow much more, +For oh! my five sisters together fell o’er.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“I think of the stream, and I sorrow much more, +My sisters sank in it and never rose more.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“My dearest, my dearest, cast sorrow aside, +Before thee shall twelve of my merry men ride.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“Before thee shall twelve of my merry men speed, +And I will myself hold the reins of thy steed.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +And when they arrived in the green forest shade +A hart they beheld at gold tables that played. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +All stopped at the strange brown hart to take heed, +And allowed the young bride by herself to proceed. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +And as the broad bridge she went galloping o’er, +Stumbled her steed on his golden shoes four. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +Golden shoes four, each with golden nails three, +And the bride was cast into the boiling sea. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +Sir Peter he turned at her terrified cry, +But the bride she had sunk ’neath the waters high. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +He called to his men as their hands they wring: +“Bring quickly my harp with the golden string!” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +Sir Peter began with such sweetness to play, +That the birds all sang as they sat on the spray. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +The Merman rose from the depths of the sea, +And the fair young bride by the hand led he. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“Sir Peter, Sir Peter, thy playing give o’er, +Thy beautiful bride to thy arms I restore.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“For my bonny bride only I will not give o’er, +Her five sisters also thou must restore.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +Anew ’gan Sir Peter so sweetly to play, +That the birds came down from their seat on the spray. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +The Merman arose from the depth of the sea, +Five pretty maids by the hand led he. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +“Sir Peter, Sir Peter, thy playing give o’er, +For in truth have I now no maidens more.” + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + +From her anguish now is the Lady free, +In the arm of Sir Peter each night sleeps she. + _Belov’d of my heart_, _wherefore sorrowest thou so_? + + + + +THE UNFORTUNATE MARRIAGE + + +Hildebrand gave his sister away, +Causing her many a mournful day. + +She was given away and evilly wed, +Joy from her bosom quickly fled. + +On Sunday she was a graceful bride, +On Monday a prisoner sad she sigh’d. + +“O what, my Lord, have I done to thee?” +“Woman, I had no gold with thee. + +“This have I, Dame, to say to thee, +Thou brought’st no silver home to me.” + +“Thou knowest I brought thee as my dower +Eight full coffers to thy bower. + +“Two filled with silver, white to see, +And two with gold so ruddy of blee. + +“Two filled with sable and mard skins rare, +And two with pelts of deer and of bear. + +“Upon thy father I bestow’d +Gilded saddle and courser proud. + +“Upon thy mother did I bestow +Scarlet to place her feet below. + +“To thy brother a ship from off the wave, +To your sister gold from my breast I gave. + +“All thy courtiers I have dight +With little shirts as ivory white. + +“No serving lass in the house is there +But I gave her silk to snood her hair. + +“With what, my Lord, canst me upbraid, +And why in durance am I laid?” + +“Woman, to thee I’ve this to say, +Thy brothers my father slew in fray.” + +“If my brothers a deed so dire did dare, +I in that deed did in no ways share. + +“And thou for thy father’s death wast paid +Seven tons of silver, and golden braid. + +“What more, my Lord, canst thou require, +To remove from me thy anger dire?” + +“Woman, with this I thee upbraid, +Thou cam’st not into my bed a maid.” + +“So lend me, God, in my trouble aid, +As I came into thy bed a maid! + +“And may God never give me grace, +If I came not a maid to thy embrace.” + +“To-day thou shall sit within and mourn, +To-morrow at dawn on faggots burn.” + +There she sits and her hands she wrings, +Till she heard the clang of the Raven’s wings. + +“O Raven, Raven, stay thy wing, +Can’st thou the tune of the watchman sing?” + +“O well can I, and well I ought, +So little was I when the tune I caught.” + +“Wilt fly for me, Raven, to Tonne town, +For there my friends and kindred wone? + +“I’ll give thee, Raven, a red gold band, +To carry my message to Hildebrand. + +“A red gold band I’ll give to thee, +To tell him the tale of my misery.” + +“Thy gold will do me little good, +Dearer to me my raven food.” + +“O Raven, if thou wilt fly for me, +My husband’s eyes shall be thy fee.” + +Abroad his black wings the Raven threw, +And over three kingly realms he flew. + +The Raven into the chamber sped, +Where Hildebrand drank the wine so red. + +“Hear thou, Hildebrand the young, +Thy sister’s into durance flung. + +“Here art thou sitting and drinking wine, +To-morrow they’ll burn sweet sister thine.” + +Hildebrand sprang the table o’er, +Dashing the wine on the marble floor. + +Hildebrand hies him into the stall, +There he beholds the coursers all. + +He viewed the brown, and the gray as well, +On the black he laid the gilded selle. + +“Blacklille, Blacklille, if me thou’lt bear, +Thou on winnowed wheat all thy days shalt fare.” + +“Then willingly, willingly, thee I’ll bear, +But to breathe my name thou must not dare.” + +He placed himself Blacklille’s back upon, +And across the sea then away he ran. + +And when to the midst of the Sound they came, +He in evil hour uttered Blacklille’s name. + +Blacklille quickly swam to the land, +But down to the bottom sank Hildebrand. + +On the Ting stood the damsel at break of day, +Then heard she afar off Blacklille neigh. + +Blacklille ran towards the Ting in wrath, +Back scattered both women and men from his path. + +Blacklille he kicked, the Raven he hewed, +With the blood of men was his beak embrued. + +Black took on his back the fair young dame, +He went from the Ting and with her was tame. + +And when they reached the yellow sand, +Upon it was standing Hildebrand. + +“Welcome, sweet Kirsten, dear sister mine, +Why is so pallid that cheek of thine?” + +“The reason my cheek so pale is seen, +Is because I’ve far from my dear home been.” + +“Now let no honest man,” she said, +“Into foreign lands his daughter wed. + +“Of gold perhaps he may get a store, +But her happiness goeth for evermore.” + +Hildebrand kissed her o’er and o’er: +“My darling sister, pray sorrow no more. + +“Kirsten, I pray thee, pardon me +For bringing thee into this misery.” + +Then spake Blacklille as he stood: +“I’ve saved thee by shedding human blood. + +“Give me, Kirsten, one little kiss, +And the Raven one on that beak of his.” + +On their mouths she kissed them both with glee— +From hideous thrall were they both set free. + +She kissed them both with good will, I ween, +They changed to her brothers who lost had been. + +They all pressed her fondly to their breast, +From sorrow and woe she is now at rest. + + + + +THE WRESTLING-MATCH + + +As one day I wandered lonely, in extreme distress of mind, +I a pleasant garden entered, hoping comfort there to find. +Up and down I paced the garden till an open space I spied, +There I saw a crowd of people, and I heard a voice that cried: +“Come and see what Love is doing, here is Love performing more +Wondrous feats than e’er were witnessed at Olympian games of yore: +This he conquers, that he conquers, young and old before him lie, +Great and small alike he conquers, none with him a fall must try. + +Hearing this at once I entered ’midst the crowd collected there, +Some of whom no doubt were eager like myself to banish care. +I would fain behold this being, this same wondrous lad survey, +Who ’twas said in each encounter bore with ease the prize away. +Quickly I the crowd divided, soon I pierced the multitude, +And this Love stood full before me, and what think you ’twas I view’d? +Why a boy, a little darling, full of captivating grace, +Rather roguish were his glances, but how lovely was his face! + +Soon as I beheld this warrior gibings I began to throw +At the wretches who had suffered fell defeat from such a foe. +Then, to me his visage turning, of the conquered standing by +One replied, and in replying tears he shed abundantly: +“O, poor youth,” ’twas thus he answered, “little, little dost thou know +That in coming here thou comest not to joy, but bitter woe. +Tears, and pains, and wounds most ghastly, wounds for which there is no +cure, +Every kind of evil treatment such as no one can endure.” + +When these words I heard him utter I was filled with bitter rage, +And forthwith made preparation with the warrior to engage. +“Hearken, Master Love,” I shouted, “from this spot stir not away, +You and I must have a battle, must engage in deadly fray; +That it may be known for certain which is strongest of us two.” +Then into the arena bounding there I stood in all men’s view, +In the midst of it expecting firm the onset of the foe, +Doubting not should he attack me him at once to overthrow. +Love he was not slow to follow with a blythe and joyous air, +Crying out, “My dearest fellow, for the fight yourself prepare! +Round the waist each other clasping now let’s strive like wrestlers true, +Do your best and I will show you what young Master Love can do.” + +Then around the waist I clasped him, he his arms around me wound, +Long we hugged and hugged each other, each his match in t’other found. +Said at length the urchin to me: “Sadly tired, friend, am I, +Very much fatigued and weary, really friend just fit to die. +Therefore take from me, I prythee, what thou anxiously hast sought, +And for which in this arena with me gallantly hast fought.” + +Then a blast of wild consuming fire he breathed into my breast, +Straight my breast it quick enkindled, all deprived was I of rest, +Then he ran away exulting to some other wretched wight, +Such a zest he has for conflict, in such fray is his delight. + +As for me I fell half senseless on the fatal, fatal spot, +Fierce consuming fire within me, never sure was one so hot. +Rising up I followed shrieking, “Oh have mercy, Love, on me! +See my tears, my sad affliction, cure me of my misery!” + +Then he cried, “Dost not remember all the boasts thy lips out-pour’d? +Know henceforth in every region Love is Conqueror and Lord.” + +Thus he cried, and proudly left me, and wherever now I rove, +I reproach myself for thinking I could vanquish mighty Love. + + + + +THE WARRIOR +_From the Arabic_. + + +Thou lov’st to look on myrtles green, + And the narcissus bright of hue; +I love the blaze of sabres keen, + I love the dagger’s flash to view. + +Thou, thou may’st drink the rosy wine + From golden goblets sculptured o’er; +From foemen’s skulls the joy be mine + To drink my foemen’s reeking gore. + + * * * * * + + LONDON + Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W. + _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_. + + + + +Footnotes: + + +{10} Here the old ballad—I speak of the original Manx—concludes. The +two following stanzas are comparatively modern. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BROWN WILLIAM*** + + +******* This file should be named 26788-0.txt or 26788-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/7/8/26788 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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Wise, +Translated by George Borrow + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Brown William + The Power of the Harp and Other Ballads + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26788] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BROWN WILLIAM*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>BROWN WILLIAM<br /> +<span class="smcap">the power of the harp</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">and</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">other ballads</span></h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">1913</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Copyright in +the United States of America</i><br /> +<i>by Houghton</i>, <i>Mifflin & Co. for Clement +Shorter</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>BROWN WILLIAM</h2> +<p><i>This ballad was written in consequence of the execution of +William Christian</i>, <i>generally called William Donn</i>, +<i>or Brown William</i>, <i>from the darkness of his +complexion</i>, <i>who was shot at Hango Hill</i>, <i>near +Castletown</i>, <i>in the Isle of Man</i>, <i>shortly after the +Restoration</i>, <i>for alleged treason to the Derby family</i>, +<i>who long possessed the sovereignty of Man</i>. . . .<i> The +ballad of</i> “<i>Brown William</i>,” <i>which gives +an account of the betrayal of the poor patriot</i>, <i>and the +vengeance taken by the hand of God upon his murderers</i>, <i>is +the most popular of all the wild songs of Ellan Vannin</i>.</p> +<p>Let no one in greatness too confident be,<br /> +Nor trust in his kindred, though high their degree;<br /> +For envy and rage will lay any man low:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>Thou wast the Receiver of Mona’s fair state,<br /> +Thy conduct was noble, thy wisdom was great,<br /> +And ne’er of thy rule did she weariness show:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>Thy right hand was Earley, and Theah thy right eye;<br /> +Thy state caused thy foemen with rage to swell high;<br /> +And envy and rage will lay any man low:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>How blest thy condition in fair Ronaldsway!<br /> +Thy mansion, how stately! thy garden, how gay!<br /> +But oh! what disasters from envy do flow:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>’Twas said at thy trial, by men void of faith,<br /> +The king, by a letter, demanded thy death;<br /> +The jury was frighten’d, and dared not say +“No!”<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>The clan of wild Colcad could ne’er be at rest<br /> +Whilst the race of Christeen their own acres possess’d;<br +/> +And envy and spite will bring any man low:<br /> +Thy murder Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>A band of adulterers, curst and unholy,<br /> +For Ronaldsway lust, as they did for Logh Molley;<br /> +Of Naboth, the tragedy’s played here anew:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>Not one of the band but received his just meed,<br /> +Who acted a part in that damnable deed;<br /> +To dwindle away the whole band was not slow:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>To Callaghyn-doo, and to Vannyster roam,<br /> +And call on the Colcad till hoarse ye become;<br /> +Gone, gone is the name so well known long ago:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>A cripple was Robin for many years long,<br /> +Who troubled and bullied the island when strong;<br /> +His own friends of tending him weary did grow:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>Sly Richard took ship with thy blood on his hand,<br /> +But God can avenge on the sea as on land;<br /> +The waves would not bear him, but whelm’d him, I trow:<br +/> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>And now, if a few of the seed do remain,<br /> +They’re vile as the thistles and briars of the plain;<br /> +They ply for their neighbours the pick and the hoe:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>Should ye walk through all Man you’ll find no one, I +reckon,<br /> +To mourn for the name that was once in Beemachan;<br /> +But thousands of poor who rejoice that ’tis low:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>Proceed to Creganyn, and Balla-logh green,<br /> +But where’s there a Colcad to bid ye walk in?<br /> +By strangers their homes and their lands are held now:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>Great Scarlett, in wealth who dwelt down by the bay,<br /> +Must toil now with paupers for sixpence a-day;<br /> +And oft, as I’ve heard, has no morsel to chew:<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>The band by whose weapons the great Cæsar died<br /> +Were hunted by foes, and all peace were denied;<br /> +Not one died the death of kind Nature, O, no!<br /> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>So it fared with the band by whom Willie did die,<br /> +Their lands are a waste, their names stink to the sky;<br /> +<!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>They melted like rime in the ruddy sun’s glow:<br +/> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>But comfort I take, for ’tis common report<br /> +There are shoots of dear Will who are sitting at court,<br /> +Who have punished his foes by king’s mandate, although<br +/> +Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.</p> +<p>O, ’tis pleasant to think, when one’s +wither’d and grey,<br /> +There’s race of Brown William in fair Ronaldsway,<br /> +That his foemen are crush’d, and their faces can’t +show,<br /> +While the clan of Christeen have no trouble or woe. <a +name="citation10"></a><a href="#footnote10" +class="citation">[10]</a><br /> +<br /> +<!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>To the counsellors false, both in church and in +state,<br /> +Bear the public of Mona both loathing and hate,<br /> +Who set man against man, and the peace would break now,<br /> +As thy murder, Brown William, broke hearts long ago.</p> +<p>The lord of our island, Duke Athol the great,<br /> +They would gladly persuade, with their parle and their prate,<br +/> +The corner-stones high of his house to lay low,<br /> +And to King, Duke and Mona are foemen, I trow.</p> +<h2><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>THE POWER OF THE HARP</h2> +<p>Sir Peter would forth from the castle ride,<br /> +Grieving and weeping did sit his young bride.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“Art grieving for saddle, or steed black or white,<br /> +Or because I have wed thee art thou in this plight?”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“I grieve not for saddle, or steed black or white,<br /> +Nor because thou hast wed me am I in this plight.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>“Dost sorrow because little wealth I have got,<br +/> +Or dost sorrow because thine equal I’m not?”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“I sorrow not because little of wealth thou hast got,<br +/> +Nor grieve I because thou mine equal art not.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“Dost sorrow because thy fond father is dead,<br /> +Or dost sorrow because thou’rt no longer a maid?”<br +/> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“I grieve not because my dear father is dead,<br /> +Nor sorrow I because that I am not a maid.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“I grieve and I weep, and to grieve I have need,<br /> +I know but too well what for me is decreed.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>“For the bridge, the broad bridge, I sorrow much +more,<br /> +For oh! my five sisters together fell o’er.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“I think of the stream, and I sorrow much more,<br /> +My sisters sank in it and never rose more.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“My dearest, my dearest, cast sorrow aside,<br /> +Before thee shall twelve of my merry men ride.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“Before thee shall twelve of my merry men speed,<br /> +And I will myself hold the reins of thy steed.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>And when they arrived in the green forest shade<br /> +A hart they beheld at gold tables that played.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>All stopped at the strange brown hart to take heed,<br +/> +And allowed the young bride by herself to proceed.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>And as the broad bridge she went galloping o’er,<br /> +Stumbled her steed on his golden shoes four.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>Golden shoes four, each with golden nails three,<br /> +And the bride was cast into the boiling sea.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>Sir Peter he turned at her terrified cry,<br /> +But the bride she had sunk ’neath the waters high.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>He called to his men as their hands they wring:<br /> +“Bring quickly my harp with the golden string!”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>Sir Peter began with such sweetness to play,<br /> +That the birds all sang as they sat on the spray.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>The Merman rose from the depths of the sea,<br /> +And the fair young bride by the hand led he.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“Sir Peter, Sir Peter, thy playing give o’er,<br +/> +Thy beautiful bride to thy arms I restore.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“For my bonny bride only I will not give o’er,<br +/> +Her five sisters also thou must restore.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>Anew ’gan Sir Peter so sweetly to play,<br /> +That the birds came down from their seat on the spray.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>The Merman arose from the depth of the sea,<br /> +Five pretty maids by the hand led he.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>“Sir Peter, Sir Peter, thy playing give o’er,<br +/> +For in truth have I now no maidens more.”<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<p>From her anguish now is the Lady free,<br /> +In the arm of Sir Peter each night sleeps she.<br /> + <i>Belov’d of my heart</i>, <i>wherefore +sorrowest thou so</i>?</p> +<h2><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>THE UNFORTUNATE MARRIAGE</h2> +<p>Hildebrand gave his sister away,<br /> +Causing her many a mournful day.</p> +<p>She was given away and evilly wed,<br /> +Joy from her bosom quickly fled.</p> +<p>On Sunday she was a graceful bride,<br /> +On Monday a prisoner sad she sigh’d.</p> +<p>“O what, my Lord, have I done to thee?”<br /> +“Woman, I had no gold with thee.</p> +<p>“This have I, Dame, to say to thee,<br /> +Thou brought’st no silver home to me.”</p> +<p>“Thou knowest I brought thee as my dower<br /> +Eight full coffers to thy bower.</p> +<p><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>“Two filled with silver, white to see,<br /> +And two with gold so ruddy of blee.</p> +<p>“Two filled with sable and mard skins rare,<br /> +And two with pelts of deer and of bear.</p> +<p>“Upon thy father I bestow’d<br /> +Gilded saddle and courser proud.</p> +<p>“Upon thy mother did I bestow<br /> +Scarlet to place her feet below.</p> +<p>“To thy brother a ship from off the wave,<br /> +To your sister gold from my breast I gave.</p> +<p>“All thy courtiers I have dight<br /> +With little shirts as ivory white.</p> +<p>“No serving lass in the house is there<br /> +But I gave her silk to snood her hair.</p> +<p>“With what, my Lord, canst me upbraid,<br /> +And why in durance am I laid?”</p> +<p>“Woman, to thee I’ve this to say,<br /> +Thy brothers my father slew in fray.”</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>“If my brothers a deed so dire did dare,<br /> +I in that deed did in no ways share.</p> +<p>“And thou for thy father’s death wast paid<br /> +Seven tons of silver, and golden braid.</p> +<p>“What more, my Lord, canst thou require,<br /> +To remove from me thy anger dire?”</p> +<p>“Woman, with this I thee upbraid,<br /> +Thou cam’st not into my bed a maid.”</p> +<p>“So lend me, God, in my trouble aid,<br /> +As I came into thy bed a maid!</p> +<p>“And may God never give me grace,<br /> +If I came not a maid to thy embrace.”</p> +<p>“To-day thou shall sit within and mourn,<br /> +To-morrow at dawn on faggots burn.”</p> +<p>There she sits and her hands she wrings,<br /> +Till she heard the clang of the Raven’s wings.</p> +<p>“O Raven, Raven, stay thy wing,<br /> +Can’st thou the tune of the watchman sing?”</p> +<p><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>“O well can I, and well I ought,<br /> +So little was I when the tune I caught.”</p> +<p>“Wilt fly for me, Raven, to Tonne town,<br /> +For there my friends and kindred wone?</p> +<p>“I’ll give thee, Raven, a red gold band,<br /> +To carry my message to Hildebrand.</p> +<p>“A red gold band I’ll give to thee,<br /> +To tell him the tale of my misery.”</p> +<p>“Thy gold will do me little good,<br /> +Dearer to me my raven food.”</p> +<p>“O Raven, if thou wilt fly for me,<br /> +My husband’s eyes shall be thy fee.”</p> +<p>Abroad his black wings the Raven threw,<br /> +And over three kingly realms he flew.</p> +<p>The Raven into the chamber sped,<br /> +Where Hildebrand drank the wine so red.</p> +<p>“Hear thou, Hildebrand the young,<br /> +Thy sister’s into durance flung.</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>“Here art thou sitting and drinking wine,<br /> +To-morrow they’ll burn sweet sister thine.”</p> +<p>Hildebrand sprang the table o’er,<br /> +Dashing the wine on the marble floor.</p> +<p>Hildebrand hies him into the stall,<br /> +There he beholds the coursers all.</p> +<p>He viewed the brown, and the gray as well,<br /> +On the black he laid the gilded selle.</p> +<p>“Blacklille, Blacklille, if me thou’lt bear,<br /> +Thou on winnowed wheat all thy days shalt fare.”</p> +<p>“Then willingly, willingly, thee I’ll bear,<br /> +But to breathe my name thou must not dare.”</p> +<p>He placed himself Blacklille’s back upon,<br /> +And across the sea then away he ran.</p> +<p>And when to the midst of the Sound they came,<br /> +He in evil hour uttered Blacklille’s name.</p> +<p>Blacklille quickly swam to the land,<br /> +But down to the bottom sank Hildebrand.</p> +<p><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>On the Ting stood the damsel at break of day,<br /> +Then heard she afar off Blacklille neigh.</p> +<p>Blacklille ran towards the Ting in wrath,<br /> +Back scattered both women and men from his path.</p> +<p>Blacklille he kicked, the Raven he hewed,<br /> +With the blood of men was his beak embrued.</p> +<p>Black took on his back the fair young dame,<br /> +He went from the Ting and with her was tame.</p> +<p>And when they reached the yellow sand,<br /> +Upon it was standing Hildebrand.</p> +<p>“Welcome, sweet Kirsten, dear sister mine,<br /> +Why is so pallid that cheek of thine?”</p> +<p>“The reason my cheek so pale is seen,<br /> +Is because I’ve far from my dear home been.”</p> +<p>“Now let no honest man,” she said,<br /> +“Into foreign lands his daughter wed.</p> +<p>“Of gold perhaps he may get a store,<br /> +But her happiness goeth for evermore.”</p> +<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>Hildebrand kissed her o’er and o’er:<br /> +“My darling sister, pray sorrow no more.</p> +<p>“Kirsten, I pray thee, pardon me<br /> +For bringing thee into this misery.”</p> +<p>Then spake Blacklille as he stood:<br /> +“I’ve saved thee by shedding human blood.</p> +<p>“Give me, Kirsten, one little kiss,<br /> +And the Raven one on that beak of his.”</p> +<p>On their mouths she kissed them both with glee—<br /> +From hideous thrall were they both set free.</p> +<p>She kissed them both with good will, I ween,<br /> +They changed to her brothers who lost had been.</p> +<p>They all pressed her fondly to their breast,<br /> +From sorrow and woe she is now at rest.</p> +<h2><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>THE WRESTLING-MATCH</h2> +<p>As one day I wandered lonely, in extreme distress of mind,<br +/> +I a pleasant garden entered, hoping comfort there to find.<br /> +Up and down I paced the garden till an open space I spied,<br /> +There I saw a crowd of people, and I heard a voice that cried:<br +/> +“Come and see what Love is doing, here is Love performing +more<br /> +Wondrous feats than e’er were witnessed at Olympian games +of yore:<br /> +This he conquers, that he conquers, young and old before him +lie,<br /> +Great and small alike he conquers, none with him a fall must +try.</p> +<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>Hearing this at once I entered ’midst the crowd +collected there,<br /> +Some of whom no doubt were eager like myself to banish care.<br +/> +I would fain behold this being, this same wondrous lad survey,<br +/> +Who ’twas said in each encounter bore with ease the prize +away.<br /> +Quickly I the crowd divided, soon I pierced the multitude,<br /> +And this Love stood full before me, and what think you +’twas I view’d?<br /> +Why a boy, a little darling, full of captivating grace,<br /> +Rather roguish were his glances, but how lovely was his face!</p> +<p>Soon as I beheld this warrior gibings I began to throw<br /> +At the wretches who had suffered fell defeat from such a foe.<br +/> +<!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>Then, to me his visage turning, of the conquered +standing by<br /> +One replied, and in replying tears he shed abundantly:<br /> +“O, poor youth,” ’twas thus he answered, +“little, little dost thou know<br /> +That in coming here thou comest not to joy, but bitter woe.<br /> +Tears, and pains, and wounds most ghastly, wounds for which there +is no cure,<br /> +Every kind of evil treatment such as no one can +endure.”</p> +<p>When these words I heard him utter I was filled with bitter +rage,<br /> +And forthwith made preparation with the warrior to engage.<br /> +“Hearken, Master Love,” I shouted, “from this +spot stir not away,<br /> +You and I must have a battle, must engage in deadly fray;<br /> +<!-- page 28--><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>That it may be known for certain which is strongest of +us two.”<br /> +Then into the arena bounding there I stood in all men’s +view,<br /> +In the midst of it expecting firm the onset of the foe,<br /> +Doubting not should he attack me him at once to overthrow.<br /> +Love he was not slow to follow with a blythe and joyous air,<br +/> +Crying out, “My dearest fellow, for the fight yourself +prepare!<br /> +Round the waist each other clasping now let’s strive like +wrestlers true,<br /> +Do your best and I will show you what young Master Love can +do.”</p> +<p>Then around the waist I clasped him, he his arms around me +wound,<br /> +Long we hugged and hugged each other, each his match in +t’other found.<br /> +<!-- page 29--><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span>Said at length the urchin to me: “Sadly tired, +friend, am I,<br /> +Very much fatigued and weary, really friend just fit to die.<br +/> +Therefore take from me, I prythee, what thou anxiously hast +sought,<br /> +And for which in this arena with me gallantly hast +fought.”</p> +<p>Then a blast of wild consuming fire he breathed into my +breast,<br /> +Straight my breast it quick enkindled, all deprived was I of +rest,<br /> +Then he ran away exulting to some other wretched wight,<br /> +Such a zest he has for conflict, in such fray is his delight.</p> +<p>As for me I fell half senseless on the fatal, fatal spot,<br +/> +Fierce consuming fire within me, never sure was one so hot.<br /> +<!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>Rising up I followed shrieking, “Oh have mercy, +Love, on me!<br /> +See my tears, my sad affliction, cure me of my misery!”</p> +<p>Then he cried, “Dost not remember all the boasts thy +lips out-pour’d?<br /> +Know henceforth in every region Love is Conqueror and +Lord.”</p> +<p>Thus he cried, and proudly left me, and wherever now I +rove,<br /> +I reproach myself for thinking I could vanquish mighty Love.</p> +<h2><!-- page 31--><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>THE WARRIOR<br /> +<i>From the Arabic</i>.</h2> +<p>Thou lov’st to look on myrtles green,<br /> + And the narcissus bright of hue;<br /> +I love the blaze of sabres keen,<br /> + I love the dagger’s flash to view.</p> +<p>Thou, thou may’st drink the rosy wine<br /> + From golden goblets sculptured o’er;<br /> +From foemen’s skulls the joy be mine<br /> + To drink my foemen’s reeking gore.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 32--><a +name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 32</span><span +class="smcap">London</span><br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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