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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/26790-0.txt b/26790-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6396b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/26790-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,974 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Brother Avenged, by George Borrow, Edited +by Thomas J. Wise + + +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: The Brother Avenged + and Other Ballads + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26790] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROTHER AVENGED*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + THE BROTHER AVENGED + 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_. + + + + +THE BROTHER AVENGED + + +I stood before my master’s board, + The skinker’s office plying; +The herald-men brought tidings then + That my brother was murdered lying. + +I followed my lord unto his bed, + By his dearest down he laid him; +Then my courser out of the stall I led, + And with saddle and bit arrayed him. + +I sprang upon my courser’s back, + With the spur began to goad him; +And ere I drew his bridle to, + Full fifteen leagues I rode him. + +And when I came to the noisy hall + Where the Kemps carouse were keeping, +O then I saw my mother dear + O’er the corse of my brother weeping. + +Then I laid an arrow on my good bow, + The bow that never deceived me; +And straight I shot the King’s Kempions twelve, + Of my brother who had bereaved me. + +And then to the Ting I rode away, + Where the judges twelve were seated; +Of six to avenge my brother I begged, + And of six protection entreated. + +For the third time rode I to the Ting, + For deep revenge I lusted; +Up stood the liege-man of the King, + And at me fiercely thrusted. + +Up stood the liege-man of the King, + With a furious thrust toward me; +And the Judges twelve rose in the Ting, + And an outlaw’d man declared me. + +Then I laid an arrow on my good bow, + And the bow to its utmost bent I; +And into the heart of the King’s liege-man + The sharp, sharp arrow sent I. + +Then away from the Ting amain I sped, + And my good steed clomb in hurry; +There was nothing for me but to hasten and flee, + And myself ’mong the woods to bury. + +And hidden for eight long years I lay + Amid the woods so lonely; +I’d nothing to eat in that dark retreat + But grass and green leaves only. + +I’d nothing to eat in that dark retreat, + Save the grass and leaves I devoured; +No bed-fellows crept to the place where I slept, + But bears that brooned and roared. + +So near at hand was the holy tide + Of our Lady of mercies tender; +The King of the Swedes his followers leads, + And rides to the Church in splendour. + +So I laid an arrow on my good bow, + As I looked from the gap so narrow; +And into the heart of the Swedish King + I sent the yard-long arrow. + +Now lies on the ground the Swedish King, + And the blood from his death-wound showers; +So blythe is my breast, though still I must rest + Amid the forest bowers. + + + + +THE EYES + + +To kiss a pair of red lips small + Full many a lover sighs; +If I kiss anything at all, + Let it be Sophy’s eyes. +The eyes, the eyes, whose witcheries + Have filled my heart with care; +Too dear I prize the eyes, the eyes + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre. + +Were I the Czar, my kingly crown, + My troops and victories, +And fair renown I’d all lay down + To kiss but Sophy’s eyes. +The charming eyes, whose witcheries + Have filled my heart with care; +Too dear I prize the charming eyes + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre. + +Perhaps I’ve seen a fairer face, + Though hers may well surprise; +A form perhaps of lovelier grace, + But, oh! the eyes, the eyes! +The matchless eyes, whose witcheries + Have filled my heart with care; +I well may prize the matchless eyes + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre. + +What with the polished diamond-stone + Can vie beneath the skies? +Oh, it is vied and far outshone + By Sophy’s beaming eyes. +By Sophy’s eyes, whose witcheries + Have filled my heart with care; +Well may I prize the beaming eyes + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre. + +The sun of June burns furiously, + And brooks and meadows dries; +But, oh, with more intensity + Burn cruel Sophy’s eyes! +The wicked eyes, whose witcheries + Have filled my heart with care; +Too dear I prize the wicked eyes + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre. + +O, soon beneath their piercing ray, + Like some parched plant which dies, +Wither shall I, poor youth, away? + And all for Sophy’s eyes. +But bless the eyes, whose witcheries + Have filled my heart with care; +Till Death I’ll prize and bless the eyes + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre. + + + + +HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON +_From the Greek_ + + +With the leaves of the myrtle I’ll cover my brand, + Like Harmodius and Aristogiton of yore; +When the tyrant they slew, and their dear native land + They caused with just laws to be governed once more. + +O, beloved Harmodius! thou still art not dead, + In the Isles of the Blest thou still livest, they say; +Where the swift-heel’d Achilles and bold Diomed + Through sweet flowery meadows continually stray. + +With the leaves of the myrtle I’ll cover my blade, + Like Harmodius and Aristogiton of yore; +Who, whilst the high rites to Athena were paid, + The bold tyrant Hipparchus extended in gore. + +And on earth ever, ever your glory shall glow, + Harmodius and Aristogiton, sun-bright; +Because ye the damnable tyrant laid low, + And restored to your country her law and her right. + + + + +MY DAINTY DAME + + +My dainty Dame, my heart’s delight, +Star of my watch, serene and bright; +Come to the green wood, mild is May, +Cosy the arbours, come away! + +In me thy spouse and servant see, +To silvan hall I’ll usher thee; +Thy bed shall be the leaves heaped high, +Thy organ’s note the cuckoo’s cry. +Thy covert warm the kindly wood, +No fairer form therein e’er stood. +Thy dress, my beauteous gem, shall be +Soft foliage stript from forest tree; +The foliage best the forest bore, +Served as a garb for Eve of yore. +Thou, too, throughout the summer day +Shalt rove around in Eve’s array. +My Eve thou art, my ever dear, +Thy Adam I’ll attend and cheer. + +Come to the green wood, come away, +The floor with grass and flowers is gay! +There ’neath no tree shalt thou descry +In churlish guise old jealousy. +Fear not my love, afar is now +The loon, thy tiresome lord, I trow; +To all a jest amidst his clan +He choler deals in Cardigan. +Here, nestled nigh the sounding sea, +In Ifor’s bush we’ll ever be. +More bliss for us our fate propounds +On Taf’s green banks than Teivi’s bounds; +Thy caitiff wight is scarce aware +Where now we lurk, my little fair. +Ah! better here, in love’s sweet thrall, +To hark the cuckoo’s hearty call, +Than pine through life in castle hall! + + + + +GRASACH ABO +OR +THE CAUSE OF GRACE + + +O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy turrets are tall, + Descried from their top is the oncoming foe; +Though numerous the warriors that watch on thy wall, + Thy hope and thy trust are in Grasach Abo. + +O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy chieftains abound + With courage no dangers can ever lay low; +In the day of the fight can their equals be found, + When is roared to the heaven’s heights Grasach Abo? + +O, Baillie Na Cortie! brave helps thou hast nigh, + Will rise at thy summons full quickly I trow; +The Shortuls, Roothes, Shees, clans so mighty and high, + Will rise on the foemen of Grasach Abo. + +O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy banner shall bound + Blood red in the winds o’er the battle that blow; +When thy lion so gallant breathes terror around, + And thy soldiers are shouting out Grasach Abo. + +O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy armoury boasts + The arms of great chiefs on the wall in a row; +Gilliepatrick let fall, and O More of the hosts, + When they ran in red rout before Grasach Abo. + +O, Baillie Na Cortie! when blazed the bright swords, + Thy sons gave the Butlers a signal o’erthrow; +When Desmond was scattered with all his dark hordes, + He loathed the wild war whoop of Grasach Abo. + +O, Baillie Na Cortie! thou needest no aid + Of strangers the day when the blood torrents flow; +The Brennaghs, Powrs, Parcels with buckler and blade, + Shall triumph and feast with the Grasach Abo. + +O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy bards hope to praise + Thee, thee through long ages undarkened with woe; +And him, thy brave chieftain, his bountiful ways, + And the heroes who bleed for the Grasach Abo. + + + + +DAGMAR + + +Sick in Ribe Dagmar’s lying, + Soon she’ll be in Ringsted’s wall; +All the Dames in Denmark dwelling + Unto her she bids them call. + +“Fetch me four, fetch five, I pray ye, + Fetch me those for wisdom famed; +Fetch Sir Carl of Haves’ sister, + Little Kirstine is she named. + +“Fetch the old, and fetch the youthful, + Fetch the learned unto me; +Fetch the lovely little Kirstine, + Worthy all respect is she. + +“Canst thou read and write, my darling? + Canst thou ease the pains I bear? +Thou shalt ride upon my coursers, + And the ruddy scarlet wear.” + +“Could I read and write, my lady, + Blythely I would do the same; +Thy pains are than iron harder, + ’Tis with grief I that proclaim.” + +’Twas the lovely little Kirstine, + Took the book and read a space— +“Ah, thy pains than steel are harder, + God Almighty help thy case!” + + + + +THE ELF BRIDE {21} + + +There was a youthful swain one day + Did ted the new mown grass; +There came a gay and lovely may + From out the nigh morass. +Clad in a dress of silk was she, +Green as the leaves which deck the tree, +Her head so winsomely to see + With bulrush plaited was. + +That lass he wooed, his suit she heeds, + And married are the pair; +To bridal bed his wife he leads— + But what befell him there? +He found, fear-stricken and amaz’d, +That he a rough oak trunk embrac’d, +Instead of the enchanting waist + Of his mysterious fair. + +Then straight abroad a voice he heard, + Which sang the window through; +These were the words the voice proffer’d + If my report be true: +“Come out to her whom thou didst wed! +Upon my mead thy couch is spread.” +From this he guessed with some elf maid + That he had had to do. + + + + +THE TREASURE DIGGER + + +O, would that with last and shoe I had stay’d, + Without wild desires; +And, ah! no trust in Satan had laid, + That prince of liars! + +Each Saturday night, when slept the rest, + Away I stroll’d +To the forest, so murky and drear, in quest + Of buried gold. + +And then I beheld the hopping fire glow + The briar behind; +And down to the earth my wishing-rod low + Itself declin’d. + +I dug then, and gripped the chest’s ring amain, + And held it stout; +But the copper deceitful burst in twain, + And the fiends laughed out. + +Just, just as long was the treasure my own, + As I trembled with fright; +But soon as I held it secure, down, down + It sank from sight. + +Ye devilish pack, what grin ye at? + I fell not your prey; +I’ll trust no more in old women’s chat, + And in cross-shaped way. + +I go by my last and shoe to stay, + Without wild desires; +And ne’er more in Satan I trust will lay, + That prince of liars! + + + + +THE FISHER + + +The fisherman saddleth his good winged horse, +To be on the deep seems to him his best course. + +Against the white strand loud and hoarse the wave breaks, +And towards the strand now the fisherman makes. + +And up when the fisher his fishing-line drew, +A fine golden fish on the hook met his view. + +Then he laughed in his beard: “I’ve of fish seen a store, +But ne’er one with golden cloth kirtle before. + +“If I a gold piece for each gold-scale possess’d, +With poverty I should no more be distrest.” + +With its tail the fish ’gan the bench furious to smite, +And a strange dance it seemed to the fisherman’s sight. + +“Thou wealthy man, be not, I pray thee, so gay, +A much quieter part a poor fisher should play.” + +The golden fish heard every word as it lay, +Began straight to talk and discourse in this way:— + +“I’m full as rich, fisherman, as thou art poor, +And soon for thee happiness I will procure. + +“Straight cast me again in the ocean my home, +And a well-doing man thou, I swear, shalt become. + +“The Queen of the ocean my mother is, know, +She linen and bolsters on thee shall bestow. + +“My father is King in the depths of the sea, +And healthy and strong he shall cause thee to be. + +“My lover he sorrows for me in the brine, +My golden cloth kirtle shall also be thine.” + +“For the sovereign of fishes I care not a straw, +On myself, if I did, I but laughter should draw. + +“For thy mother’s fine cushions I care little more, +My own Queen could make better ware any hour. + +“But if thou to a wooer thy troth didst allot, +The repose of two lovers destroy I will not.” + +The trembling gold fish in the water placed he: +“From such wretched captures the Lord preserve me! + +“If to-morrow a like one upon my hook bite, +I shall perish of hunger, poor miserable wight.” + +He the rest of the day sat at home by his hearth +And spake not a word that repeating is worth. + +He early next morn in his boat his seat took, +And straightway adjusted a bait to his hook. + +And soon as he’d overboard cast the fish-line, +The float it descended deep under the brine. + +Then he laughed in his beard, and with bitterness said: +“A catch of another gold fish I have made!” + +The thin lengthy line he up-drew half unwilling, +And, behold! there upon the hook hung a gold shilling. + +And I can forsooth and for certainty say, +That he for delight had no rest the whole day. + +But as oft as the line he up-drew from the tide, +Upon the hook never a fish he descried. + +For whene’er for the fish he upon the hook sought, +He found that a shilling of gold he had caught. + + + + +THE CUCKOO + + +Abiding an appointment made, +Upon the weed-grown steep I stayed, +One morning mild when May was new, +And fresh the down was fraught with dew. +The meads were flowering, bright the woods, +The branches yielding thousand buds. +My lips employed in song the while +On Morfydd of the merry smile. +’Twas then as round I cast my eye +With mighty wish the maid to spy; +Though, howsoe’er my sight I strained, +No glimpse of Morfydd I obtained. +I heard the cuckoo’s voice arise, +Singing the song which most I prize. +To each Bard true most sweet I trow +His music on the mountain’s brow. +Therefore, as called by courtesy, +I greeted him in poesy. + +“Good day, dear Cuckoo, with thy strain +A herald thou from heaven’s domain; +To us the tidings thou dost bear +Of summer, blissful season fair. +Of summer which to greenwood shade +Entices forth the Bard and maid; +Which decks with foliage dense the grove, +And through all nature breathes of love. +O, dear to me that note of thine, +It seasons love like choicest wine; +Whilst, doating fondness to chastise, +What cutting taunt in ‘Cuckoo’ lies! +But, pretty bird, I pray declare +Where lingereth now my lady fair?” + +“O, poet, what delusion great +Doth fill this year thy foolish pate? +’Tis harbouring a useless pain +One thought of her to entertain. +With all her store of winning charms, +She weds her to another’s arms. +Believe me, when I say to thee +A mate of thine she may not be.” + +“Hush, hush, I’ll not believe thy voice, +Dare not defame my bosom’s choice. +That nymph, the fairest ’neath the sun, +Has sworn an oath, a solemn one; +She vowed by her baptismal rite, +Beneath the bough one blessed night, +Her hand my own enclasping hard, +To live and die with me, her Bard. +The minister that mystic night +Was Madog Benfras, matchless wight. +Her suitors all may vainly sigh, +How should she wed, whom wed have I? +’Tis false, O Bird, what thou dost state, +And waste of time with thee to prate. +Folly and drunkenness, ’tis plain, +Have got possession of thy brain. +Hence with thy news, and get thee cool, +Thou art, I fear, a very fool!” + +“O, Dafydd, who the fool but thou, +Talking this guise beneath the bough? +Another husband chooses she, +Whose charms deceitful captured thee. +The Damsel of the neck of snow +Is now another’s wife, I trow. +To love another’s looks not well, +The Bow Bach owns the blooming belle.” + +“For what thou’st sung within the grove, +With malice filled, about my love, +May days of winter come with speed, +The summer and the sun recede; +Hoar frost upon the foliage fall, +The wood and branches withering all. +And thou with piercing cold be slain, +Thou horrid bird of hateful strain!” + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W. + + _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_. + + + + +Footnotes: + + +{21} These stanzas should be compared with _The Elves_, printed in _The +Nightingale_, _The Valkyrie and Raven_, _and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. +25-26. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROTHER AVENGED*** + + +******* This file should be named 26790-0.txt or 26790-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/7/9/26790 + + + +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 + + +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: The Brother Avenged + and Other Ballads + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26790] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROTHER AVENGED*** +</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>THE BROTHER AVENGED<br /> +<span class="smcap">and</span><br /> +OTHER BALLADS</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 Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>THE BROTHER AVENGED</h2> +<p>I stood before my master’s board,<br /> + The skinker’s office plying;<br /> +The herald-men brought tidings then<br /> + That my brother was murdered lying.</p> +<p>I followed my lord unto his bed,<br /> + By his dearest down he laid him;<br /> +Then my courser out of the stall I led,<br /> + And with saddle and bit arrayed him.</p> +<p>I sprang upon my courser’s back,<br /> + With the spur began to goad him;<br /> +And ere I drew his bridle to,<br /> + Full fifteen leagues I rode him.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>And when I came to the noisy hall<br /> + Where the Kemps carouse were keeping,<br /> +O then I saw my mother dear<br /> + O’er the corse of my brother weeping.</p> +<p>Then I laid an arrow on my good bow,<br /> + The bow that never deceived me;<br /> +And straight I shot the King’s Kempions twelve,<br /> + Of my brother who had bereaved me.</p> +<p>And then to the Ting I rode away,<br /> + Where the judges twelve were seated;<br /> +Of six to avenge my brother I begged,<br /> + And of six protection entreated.</p> +<p>For the third time rode I to the Ting,<br /> + For deep revenge I lusted;<br /> +Up stood the liege-man of the King,<br /> + And at me fiercely thrusted.</p> +<p>Up stood the liege-man of the King,<br /> + With a furious thrust toward me;<br /> +And the Judges twelve rose in the Ting,<br /> + And an outlaw’d man declared me.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>Then I laid an arrow on my good bow,<br /> + And the bow to its utmost bent I;<br /> +And into the heart of the King’s liege-man<br /> + The sharp, sharp arrow sent I.</p> +<p>Then away from the Ting amain I sped,<br /> + And my good steed clomb in hurry;<br /> +There was nothing for me but to hasten and flee,<br /> + And myself ’mong the woods to bury.</p> +<p>And hidden for eight long years I lay<br /> + Amid the woods so lonely;<br /> +I’d nothing to eat in that dark retreat<br /> + But grass and green leaves only.</p> +<p>I’d nothing to eat in that dark retreat,<br /> + Save the grass and leaves I devoured;<br /> +No bed-fellows crept to the place where I slept,<br /> + But bears that brooned and roared.</p> +<p>So near at hand was the holy tide<br /> + Of our Lady of mercies tender;<br /> +The King of the Swedes his followers leads,<br /> + And rides to the Church in splendour.</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>So I laid an arrow on my good bow,<br /> + As I looked from the gap so narrow;<br /> +And into the heart of the Swedish King<br /> + I sent the yard-long arrow.</p> +<p>Now lies on the ground the Swedish King,<br /> + And the blood from his death-wound showers;<br /> +So blythe is my breast, though still I must rest<br /> + Amid the forest bowers.</p> +<h2><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>THE EYES</h2> +<p>To kiss a pair of red lips small<br /> + Full many a lover sighs;<br /> +If I kiss anything at all,<br /> + Let it be Sophy’s eyes.<br /> +The eyes, the eyes, whose witcheries<br /> + Have filled my heart with care;<br /> +Too dear I prize the eyes, the eyes<br /> + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre.</p> +<p>Were I the Czar, my kingly crown,<br /> + My troops and victories,<br /> +And fair renown I’d all lay down<br /> + To kiss but Sophy’s eyes.<br /> +<!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>The charming eyes, whose witcheries<br /> + Have filled my heart with care;<br /> +Too dear I prize the charming eyes<br /> + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre.</p> +<p>Perhaps I’ve seen a fairer face,<br /> + Though hers may well surprise;<br /> +A form perhaps of lovelier grace,<br /> + But, oh! the eyes, the eyes!<br /> +The matchless eyes, whose witcheries<br /> + Have filled my heart with care;<br /> +I well may prize the matchless eyes<br /> + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre.</p> +<p>What with the polished diamond-stone<br /> + Can vie beneath the skies?<br /> +Oh, it is vied and far outshone<br /> + By Sophy’s beaming eyes.<br /> +By Sophy’s eyes, whose witcheries<br /> + Have filled my heart with care;<br /> +Well may I prize the beaming eyes<br /> + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre.</p> +<p><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>The sun of June burns furiously,<br /> + And brooks and meadows dries;<br /> +But, oh, with more intensity<br /> + Burn cruel Sophy’s eyes!<br /> +The wicked eyes, whose witcheries<br /> + Have filled my heart with care;<br /> +Too dear I prize the wicked eyes<br /> + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre.</p> +<p>O, soon beneath their piercing ray,<br /> + Like some parched plant which dies,<br /> +Wither shall I, poor youth, away?<br /> + And all for Sophy’s eyes.<br /> +But bless the eyes, whose witcheries<br /> + Have filled my heart with care;<br /> +Till Death I’ll prize and bless the eyes<br /> + Of Sophy Ribeaupierre.</p> +<h2><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON<br /> +<i>From the Greek</i></h2> +<p>With the leaves of the myrtle I’ll cover my brand,<br /> + Like Harmodius and Aristogiton of yore;<br /> +When the tyrant they slew, and their dear native land<br /> + They caused with just laws to be governed once +more.</p> +<p>O, beloved Harmodius! thou still art not dead,<br /> + In the Isles of the Blest thou still livest, they +say;<br /> +Where the swift-heel’d Achilles and bold Diomed<br /> + Through sweet flowery meadows continually stray.</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>With the leaves of the myrtle I’ll cover my +blade,<br /> + Like Harmodius and Aristogiton of yore;<br /> +Who, whilst the high rites to Athena were paid,<br /> + The bold tyrant Hipparchus extended in gore.</p> +<p>And on earth ever, ever your glory shall glow,<br /> + Harmodius and Aristogiton, sun-bright;<br /> +Because ye the damnable tyrant laid low,<br /> + And restored to your country her law and her +right.</p> +<h2><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>MY DAINTY DAME</h2> +<p>My dainty Dame, my heart’s delight,<br /> +Star of my watch, serene and bright;<br /> +Come to the green wood, mild is May,<br /> +Cosy the arbours, come away!</p> +<p>In me thy spouse and servant see,<br /> +To silvan hall I’ll usher thee;<br /> +Thy bed shall be the leaves heaped high,<br /> +Thy organ’s note the cuckoo’s cry.<br /> +Thy covert warm the kindly wood,<br /> +No fairer form therein e’er stood.<br /> +Thy dress, my beauteous gem, shall be<br /> +Soft foliage stript from forest tree;<br /> +The foliage best the forest bore,<br /> +Served as a garb for Eve of yore.<br /> +<!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>Thou, too, throughout the summer day<br /> +Shalt rove around in Eve’s array.<br /> +My Eve thou art, my ever dear,<br /> +Thy Adam I’ll attend and cheer.</p> +<p>Come to the green wood, come away,<br /> +The floor with grass and flowers is gay!<br /> +There ’neath no tree shalt thou descry<br /> +In churlish guise old jealousy.<br /> +Fear not my love, afar is now<br /> +The loon, thy tiresome lord, I trow;<br /> +To all a jest amidst his clan<br /> +He choler deals in Cardigan.<br /> +Here, nestled nigh the sounding sea,<br /> +In Ifor’s bush we’ll ever be.<br /> +More bliss for us our fate propounds<br /> +On Taf’s green banks than Teivi’s bounds;<br /> +Thy caitiff wight is scarce aware<br /> +Where now we lurk, my little fair.<br /> +Ah! better here, in love’s sweet thrall,<br /> +To hark the cuckoo’s hearty call,<br /> +Than pine through life in castle hall!</p> +<h2><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>GRASACH ABO<br /> +<span class="smcap">or</span><br /> +THE CAUSE OF GRACE</h2> +<p>O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy turrets are tall,<br /> + Descried from their top is the oncoming foe;<br /> +Though numerous the warriors that watch on thy wall,<br /> + Thy hope and thy trust are in Grasach Abo.</p> +<p>O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy chieftains abound<br /> + With courage no dangers can ever lay low;<br /> +In the day of the fight can their equals be found,<br /> + When is roared to the heaven’s heights Grasach +Abo?</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>O, Baillie Na Cortie! brave helps thou hast nigh,<br /> + Will rise at thy summons full quickly I trow;<br /> +The Shortuls, Roothes, Shees, clans so mighty and high,<br /> + Will rise on the foemen of Grasach Abo.</p> +<p>O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy banner shall bound<br /> + Blood red in the winds o’er the battle that +blow;<br /> +When thy lion so gallant breathes terror around,<br /> + And thy soldiers are shouting out Grasach Abo.</p> +<p>O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy armoury boasts<br /> + The arms of great chiefs on the wall in a row;<br /> +Gilliepatrick let fall, and O More of the hosts,<br /> + When they ran in red rout before Grasach Abo.</p> +<p><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>O, Baillie Na Cortie! when blazed the bright swords,<br +/> + Thy sons gave the Butlers a signal +o’erthrow;<br /> +When Desmond was scattered with all his dark hordes,<br /> + He loathed the wild war whoop of Grasach Abo.</p> +<p>O, Baillie Na Cortie! thou needest no aid<br /> + Of strangers the day when the blood torrents +flow;<br /> +The Brennaghs, Powrs, Parcels with buckler and blade,<br /> + Shall triumph and feast with the Grasach Abo.</p> +<p>O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy bards hope to praise<br /> + Thee, thee through long ages undarkened with woe;<br +/> +And him, thy brave chieftain, his bountiful ways,<br /> + And the heroes who bleed for the Grasach Abo.</p> +<h2><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>DAGMAR</h2> +<p>Sick in Ribe Dagmar’s lying,<br /> + Soon she’ll be in Ringsted’s wall;<br /> +All the Dames in Denmark dwelling<br /> + Unto her she bids them call.</p> +<p>“Fetch me four, fetch five, I pray ye,<br /> + Fetch me those for wisdom famed;<br /> +Fetch Sir Carl of Haves’ sister,<br /> + Little Kirstine is she named.</p> +<p>“Fetch the old, and fetch the youthful,<br /> + Fetch the learned unto me;<br /> +Fetch the lovely little Kirstine,<br /> + Worthy all respect is she.</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>“Canst thou read and write, my darling?<br /> + Canst thou ease the pains I bear?<br /> +Thou shalt ride upon my coursers,<br /> + And the ruddy scarlet wear.”</p> +<p>“Could I read and write, my lady,<br /> + Blythely I would do the same;<br /> +Thy pains are than iron harder,<br /> + ’Tis with grief I that proclaim.”</p> +<p>’Twas the lovely little Kirstine,<br /> + Took the book and read a space—<br /> +“Ah, thy pains than steel are harder,<br /> + God Almighty help thy case!”</p> +<h2><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>THE ELF BRIDE <a name="citation21"></a><a +href="#footnote21" class="citation">[21]</a></h2> +<p>There was a youthful swain one day<br /> + Did ted the new mown grass;<br /> +There came a gay and lovely may<br /> + From out the nigh morass.<br /> +Clad in a dress of silk was she,<br /> +Green as the leaves which deck the tree,<br /> +Her head so winsomely to see<br /> + With bulrush plaited was.</p> +<p>That lass he wooed, his suit she heeds,<br /> + And married are the pair;<br /> +To bridal bed his wife he leads—<br /> + But what befell him there?<br /> +<!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>He found, fear-stricken and amaz’d,<br /> +That he a rough oak trunk embrac’d,<br /> +Instead of the enchanting waist<br /> + Of his mysterious fair.</p> +<p>Then straight abroad a voice he heard,<br /> + Which sang the window through;<br /> +These were the words the voice proffer’d<br /> + If my report be true:<br /> +“Come out to her whom thou didst wed!<br /> +Upon my mead thy couch is spread.”<br /> +From this he guessed with some elf maid<br /> + That he had had to do.</p> +<h2><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>THE TREASURE DIGGER</h2> +<p>O, would that with last and shoe I had stay’d,<br /> + Without wild desires;<br /> +And, ah! no trust in Satan had laid,<br /> + That prince of liars!</p> +<p>Each Saturday night, when slept the rest,<br /> + Away I stroll’d<br /> +To the forest, so murky and drear, in quest<br /> + Of buried gold.</p> +<p>And then I beheld the hopping fire glow<br /> + The briar behind;<br /> +And down to the earth my wishing-rod low<br /> + Itself declin’d.</p> +<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>I dug then, and gripped the chest’s ring amain,<br +/> + And held it stout;<br /> +But the copper deceitful burst in twain,<br /> + And the fiends laughed out.</p> +<p>Just, just as long was the treasure my own,<br /> + As I trembled with fright;<br /> +But soon as I held it secure, down, down<br /> + It sank from sight.</p> +<p>Ye devilish pack, what grin ye at?<br /> + I fell not your prey;<br /> +I’ll trust no more in old women’s chat,<br /> + And in cross-shaped way.</p> +<p>I go by my last and shoe to stay,<br /> + Without wild desires;<br /> +And ne’er more in Satan I trust will lay,<br /> + That prince of liars!</p> +<h2><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>THE FISHER</h2> +<p>The fisherman saddleth his good winged horse,<br /> +To be on the deep seems to him his best course.</p> +<p>Against the white strand loud and hoarse the wave breaks,<br +/> +And towards the strand now the fisherman makes.</p> +<p>And up when the fisher his fishing-line drew,<br /> +A fine golden fish on the hook met his view.</p> +<p>Then he laughed in his beard: “I’ve of fish seen a +store,<br /> +But ne’er one with golden cloth kirtle before.</p> +<p>“If I a gold piece for each gold-scale +possess’d,<br /> +With poverty I should no more be distrest.”</p> +<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>With its tail the fish ’gan the bench furious to +smite,<br /> +And a strange dance it seemed to the fisherman’s sight.</p> +<p>“Thou wealthy man, be not, I pray thee, so gay,<br /> +A much quieter part a poor fisher should play.”</p> +<p>The golden fish heard every word as it lay,<br /> +Began straight to talk and discourse in this way:—</p> +<p>“I’m full as rich, fisherman, as thou art poor,<br +/> +And soon for thee happiness I will procure.</p> +<p>“Straight cast me again in the ocean my home,<br /> +And a well-doing man thou, I swear, shalt become.</p> +<p>“The Queen of the ocean my mother is, know,<br /> +She linen and bolsters on thee shall bestow.</p> +<p>“My father is King in the depths of the sea,<br /> +And healthy and strong he shall cause thee to be.</p> +<p><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>“My lover he sorrows for me in the brine,<br /> +My golden cloth kirtle shall also be thine.”</p> +<p>“For the sovereign of fishes I care not a straw,<br /> +On myself, if I did, I but laughter should draw.</p> +<p>“For thy mother’s fine cushions I care little +more,<br /> +My own Queen could make better ware any hour.</p> +<p>“But if thou to a wooer thy troth didst allot,<br /> +The repose of two lovers destroy I will not.”</p> +<p>The trembling gold fish in the water placed he:<br /> +“From such wretched captures the Lord preserve me!</p> +<p>“If to-morrow a like one upon my hook bite,<br /> +I shall perish of hunger, poor miserable wight.”</p> +<p>He the rest of the day sat at home by his hearth<br /> +And spake not a word that repeating is worth.</p> +<p>He early next morn in his boat his seat took,<br /> +And straightway adjusted a bait to his hook.</p> +<p><!-- page 28--><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>And soon as he’d overboard cast the fish-line,<br +/> +The float it descended deep under the brine.</p> +<p>Then he laughed in his beard, and with bitterness said:<br /> +“A catch of another gold fish I have made!”</p> +<p>The thin lengthy line he up-drew half unwilling,<br /> +And, behold! there upon the hook hung a gold shilling.</p> +<p>And I can forsooth and for certainty say,<br /> +That he for delight had no rest the whole day.</p> +<p>But as oft as the line he up-drew from the tide,<br /> +Upon the hook never a fish he descried.</p> +<p>For whene’er for the fish he upon the hook sought,<br /> +He found that a shilling of gold he had caught.</p> +<h2><!-- page 29--><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span>THE CUCKOO</h2> +<p>Abiding an appointment made,<br /> +Upon the weed-grown steep I stayed,<br /> +One morning mild when May was new,<br /> +And fresh the down was fraught with dew.<br /> +The meads were flowering, bright the woods,<br /> +The branches yielding thousand buds.<br /> +My lips employed in song the while<br /> +On Morfydd of the merry smile.<br /> +’Twas then as round I cast my eye<br /> +With mighty wish the maid to spy;<br /> +Though, howsoe’er my sight I strained,<br /> +No glimpse of Morfydd I obtained.<br /> +I heard the cuckoo’s voice arise,<br /> +Singing the song which most I prize.<br /> +To each Bard true most sweet I trow<br /> +His music on the mountain’s brow.<br /> +<!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>Therefore, as called by courtesy,<br /> +I greeted him in poesy.</p> +<p>“Good day, dear Cuckoo, with thy strain<br /> +A herald thou from heaven’s domain;<br /> +To us the tidings thou dost bear<br /> +Of summer, blissful season fair.<br /> +Of summer which to greenwood shade<br /> +Entices forth the Bard and maid;<br /> +Which decks with foliage dense the grove,<br /> +And through all nature breathes of love.<br /> +O, dear to me that note of thine,<br /> +It seasons love like choicest wine;<br /> +Whilst, doating fondness to chastise,<br /> +What cutting taunt in ‘Cuckoo’ lies!<br /> +But, pretty bird, I pray declare<br /> +Where lingereth now my lady fair?”</p> +<p>“O, poet, what delusion great<br /> +Doth fill this year thy foolish pate?<br /> +’Tis harbouring a useless pain<br /> +One thought of her to entertain.<br /> +With all her store of winning charms,<br /> +<!-- page 31--><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>She weds her to another’s arms.<br /> +Believe me, when I say to thee<br /> +A mate of thine she may not be.”</p> +<p>“Hush, hush, I’ll not believe thy voice,<br /> +Dare not defame my bosom’s choice.<br /> +That nymph, the fairest ’neath the sun,<br /> +Has sworn an oath, a solemn one;<br /> +She vowed by her baptismal rite,<br /> +Beneath the bough one blessed night,<br /> +Her hand my own enclasping hard,<br /> +To live and die with me, her Bard.<br /> +The minister that mystic night<br /> +Was Madog Benfras, matchless wight.<br /> +Her suitors all may vainly sigh,<br /> +How should she wed, whom wed have I?<br /> +’Tis false, O Bird, what thou dost state,<br /> +And waste of time with thee to prate.<br /> +Folly and drunkenness, ’tis plain,<br /> +Have got possession of thy brain.<br /> +Hence with thy news, and get thee cool,<br /> +Thou art, I fear, a very fool!”</p> +<p><!-- page 32--><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +32</span>“O, Dafydd, who the fool but thou,<br /> +Talking this guise beneath the bough?<br /> +Another husband chooses she,<br /> +Whose charms deceitful captured thee.<br /> +The Damsel of the neck of snow<br /> +Is now another’s wife, I trow.<br /> +To love another’s looks not well,<br /> +The Bow Bach owns the blooming belle.”</p> +<p>“For what thou’st sung within the grove,<br /> +With malice filled, about my love,<br /> +May days of winter come with speed,<br /> +The summer and the sun recede;<br /> +Hoar frost upon the foliage fall,<br /> +The wood and branches withering all.<br /> +And thou with piercing cold be slain,<br /> +Thou horrid bird of hateful strain!”</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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