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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/27408-0.txt b/27408-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7fd5a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/27408-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,929 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mollie Charane, 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: Mollie Charane + and Other Ballads + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27408] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOLLIE CHARANE*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, +UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was +made. + + + + + + MOLLIE CHARANE + 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_. + + + + +MOLLIE CHARANE {5} + + +“O, Mollie Charane, where got you your gold?” + Lone, lone you have left me here. +“O not in the curragh, deep under the mould.” + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +“O, Mollie Charane, where got you your stock?” + Lone, lone you have left me here. +“O not in the curragh from under a block.” + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +“O, Mollie Charane, where got you your goods?” + Lone, lone you have left me here. +“O not in the curragh from under two sods.” + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +Two pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes— + Lone, lone you have left me here— +For twenty-six years old Mollie did use. + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +His stockings were white, but his sandals, alack!— + Lone, lone you have left me here— +Were not of one colour, one white, t’other black. + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +One sandal was white and t’other dark brown— + Lone, lone you have left me here;— +But he’d two of one colour for kirk and for town. + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +“O, father, I really can’t walk by your side”— + Lone, lone you have left me here— +“If you go to the church in those sandals of hide.” + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +“O, daughter, my dear, if my brogues give you pain”— + Lone, lone you have left me here— +“There’s that in the coffer will make you look fain.” + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +A million of curses on Mollie Charane— + Lone, lone you have left me here— +The first who gave tocher to daughter in Man. + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + + + + +THE DANES OF YORE + + +Well we know from saga + And from scaldic lore, +That heroic warriors + Were the Danes of yore. +That the noble schildings, + And the men they led, +Oft for Danish honour + Stoutly fought and bled. + +What a time for Athelings, + What a time for thanes! +What a time for yeomen, + True devoted Danes! +But I’ll say with pleasure + That, in ancient days, +Death did not annihilate + All that noble race. + +Frederic see, exalted + On his father’s throne, +Sits a splendid monarch, + Brighter never shone. +Long to him be granted + That of Grendel’s kin +He may check the cruel + Cursed deeds of sin. + +And that long may flourish + Round about the King, +They who love gold treasures + All around to fling. +Lords, the first of heroes, + With their trenchant swords; +Counsellors held in honour, + For their golden words. + +To the Lord of angels + Praise devout I’ll sing, +That from out the grave-hill + ’Twas my lot to bring +Golden dishes, goblets, + Things of mighty worth, +Which for thousand winters + Lay entombed in earth. + +That men in gold smithery + Cunning, might from them +For the grey haired hero + Frame a diadem. +Under which his grey locks + Might all glorious shine, +Whilst the sun, bright flaming, + Seeks the western brine. + +Until, tired of glory, + Such as meets it here, +Soars the hero’s spirit + To a higher sphere; +Where, with souls united + Of departed friends, +’Twill experience glory + Such as never ends. + + + + +A SURVEY OF DEATH + + +My blood is freezing, my senses reel, +So horror stricken at heart I feel; +Thinking how like a fast stream we range +Nearer and nearer to that dread change, +When the body becomes so stark and cold, +And man doth crumble away to mould. + +Boast not, proud maid, for the grave doth gape, +And strangely altered reflects thy shape; +No dainty charms it doth disclose, +Death will ravish thy beauty’s rose; +And all the rest will leave to thee +When dug thy chilly grave shall be. + +O, ye who are tripping the floor so light, +In delicate robes as the lily white, +Think of the fading funeral wreath, +The dying struggle, the sweat of death— +Think on the dismal death array, +When the pallid corse is consigned to clay! + +O, ye who in quest of riches roam, +Reflect that ashes ye must become; +And the wealth ye win will brightly shine +When buried are ye and all your line; +For your many chests of much loved gold +You’ll nothing obtain but a little mould! + + + + +DESIDERABILIA VITÆ {13} + + +Give me the haunch of a buck to eat, + And to drink Madeira old; +And a gentle wife to rest with, + And in my arms to fold. + +An Arabic book to study, + A gipsy pony to ride; +And a house to live in shaded by trees, + Near to a river’s side. + +With such good things around me, + And with good health withal, +Though I should live for a hundred years + For death I would not call. + + + + +SAINT JACOB + + +Saint Jacob he takes our blest Lord by the hand: +“I gladly would Christianize Garsia land.” + +“O how wilt thou bring it within Christian pale? +No ship hast thou here o’er the salt sea to sail.” + +“Thy power, O Lord, is so wondrously great, +Full quickly a ship Thou for me canst create.” + +“Saint Jacob, hie down to the salt ocean strand, +There standeth so little a stone by the land.” + +Saint Jacob he taketh a book in his hand, +And down he proceeds to the salt ocean strand. + +Saint Jacob he made o’er the stone the cross-mark, +From the land straight it floated, as though ’twere a bark. + +It rode o’er the billows so rapid and free, +Right, right towards Garsia promontoree. + +So rapid the stone to glide thither began, +A hundred miles space in one short hour it ran. + +In comes a foot-boy, to the King doffs his bonnet: +“Here cometh a stone, and a man sits upon it.” + +A woman rushed in, in her eyes wonder shone: +“Here cometh a man, and he sits on a stone.” + +King Garsia taketh his axe in his hand, +And down he proceeds to the salt ocean strand. + +“Now hear thou, Saint Jacob, I say unto thee, +What hast thou in this land, in this land here with me?” + +“Unto thee I am come to this land ’cross the brine, +Because that my Maker is greater than thine.” + +“O how can thy Maker be greater than mine? +Mine drinks every day the brown mead and the wine.” + +“O then my Creator is greater than thine, +For mine can the water convert into wine. + +“My Maker can turn the black mould into bread, +Can give life back to them who long, long have been dead.” + +“If thou canst restore me my dearly loved son, +I’ll trust in thy Maker, and no other one. + +“If I again view him, with flesh and hair dight, +As he fifteen years since disappeared from my sight; + +“If I get him again both with hawk and with hound, +Just, just as he sank in the depths of the sound; + +“With hair on his head, and with flesh on his bone, +As though he the pang of death never had known.” + +Then the blessed Saint Jacob upon his book pored: +“’Twill be no easy matter to get him restored.” + +When he had stood reading a wee little time, +He raised up the man from hell’s sorrowful clime. + +“Now again thou hast got him with flesh and hair dight, +As he fifteen years since disappeared from thy sight. + +“Thou hast got him again, both with hawk and with hound, +Just, just as he sank in the ocean profound. + +“With hair on his head, and with flesh on his bone, +As though he the pang of death never had known.” + +“Now hear thou, my dear son, so fine and so fair, +What news from thy journey afar dost thou bear?” + +“The news which I bring from the far distant place, +Is that one little knows of the other’s hard case. + +“There the woman, who’s hated the child of her womb, +Out of the snake-tower can ne’er hope to come. + +“There the cruel step-mother, her child who has slain, +Goes begirt with a sword fraught with festering bane. + +“The merchants who here in heaps money up-rake, +There hiss in the likeness of serpent and snake. + +“The Sysselmen, wretches with hearts hard as stone, +There in the snake-tower despairingly moan.” + + + + +THE RENEGADE + + +Now pay ye the heed that is fitting, + Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure; +The pasha on sofa was sitting, + Midst his harem’s glorious centre. + +Greek sang, and Tcherkass, for his pleasure, + And Kergoosian captive is dancing; +In the eyes of the first heaven’s azure, + In the others black Eblis is glancing. + +But the pasha’s attention is failing, + O’er his visage his fair turban stealeth; +From chebouk he sleep is inhaling, + Whilst around him sweet vapours he dealeth. + +What rumour without is there breeding? + Ye fair ranks asunder why wend ye? +Kyslar Aga, a strange captive leading, + Cometh forward, and crieth “Efendy.” + +“Whose face has the power when present + ’Mong the stars round the divan which muster? +Who amidst the gems of night’s crescent + Has the blaze of Aldeboran’s lustre? + +“Glance nearer, bright star! I have tiding, + Glad tiding. Behold how in duty +From far Lehistan the wind, gliding, + Has brought this fresh tribute of beauty. + +“In the padishaw’s garden there bloometh + In proud Istambul no such blossom; +From the wintry regions she cometh, + Whose memory so lives in thy bosom.” + +Then the gauzes removes he which shade her, + At her beauty all wonder intensely; +One moment the pasha surveyed her, + Then, dropping his chebouk, without sense lay. + +His turban has fallen from his forehead, + To assist him the bystanders started. +His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid,— + See, the Renegade’s soul has departed! + + + + +AN IMPROMPTU + + +And darest thou thyself compare + With one who quaffs at Helicon; +Whose playfellows the Muses are, + And whom Apollo calleth son? +Who, had he lived in olden day, + With some fierce host had strode along; +Like Taillefer to Hasting’s fray, + Cheering the Normans with his song. + +The laurel wreath Apollo gave + I would not change for kingly crown; +A King is but an exalted slave, + Rebellion soon may hurl him down. +But who can force me from the height + Whereto I’ve soared on Eagle’s wing? +I leave to Monarchs ceaseless fright + For what the coming day may bring. + +Though poor I be, I’ve Minstrelsy, + When fortune frowns I’ll strike my lyre; +Against the world’s inclemency + ’Twill warm my soul with heavenly fire. +Then wonder not if proud the air + Of one who’s high Apollo’s son; +Nor henceforth dare thyself compare + With one who quaffs at Helicon. + + + + +A HYMN + + +O Jesus, Thou Fountain of solace and gladness + Of Heaven’s high Three second person divine; +Forgive, O forgive me my blindness and madness, + And guide to Thy kingdom this spirit of mine. + + Dearly, O Jesus, + Thou boughtest me, + Yon Friday dark + Upon the tree. + + Thy foes were numerous, + Fierce and fell; + Few and weak those + Who wished Thee well. + + Nigh stood Thy mother, + Full of fears, + Wringing her hands + And bathed in tears. + + Often, O Jesus, + Wilfully + With my great sins + I’ve tortured Thee. + + Causing Thy wounds + To open again, + Waking anew + The ancient pain. + + All the kindness + Thou hast display’d, + With black ingratitude + I’ve repaid. + +But Jesus, Creator of earth and of ocean, + Who me, a vile sinner, so dearly didst buy; +My damnable ignorance turn to devotion, + And guide my poor soul to Thy courts in the sky. + + + + +THE TRANSFORMED DAMSEL. {25} + + +My father up of the country rode, + A maiden he would wed; +And a foul witch he married then, + If the whole truth be said. + +The first night they together slept, + She was a mother kind to me; +But when the second night arrived, + A cruel stepmother was she. + +I was seated at my father’s board + With dogs and whelps amused; +Towards me striding my stepmother came, + And cruelly me she used. + +She changed me to a little hind, + Bade me into the forest wend; +My seven maids then she changed to wolves, + And ordered them my flesh to rend. + +But my seven maids would rend me not, + So dearly me they loved; +Then vexed sore my step-dame was, + That no worse my fortune proved. + +Sir Orm he serves in the King’s palace, + A Knight is he so fair; +He sighs for the maiden day and night, + But in secret he keeps his care. + +Sir Orm he rode from the King’s palace, + He could enjoy no peace; +He rode into the good green wood, + The hart and hind to chase. + +Sir Orm set his bow his knee before, + He rode to the hind so near; +But the hind would not from the sleuth-hounds flee, + For the Knight to her was dear. + +But the hounds advanced to the hind so near, + That the hind was forced to fly; +She changed herself to a little bird, + And flew high up in the sky. + +Anon down flew the little bird, + Perched a linden bough upon; +Sir Orm he stood there down below, + And sorely did he moan. + +Down flew the lovely little bird, + And ’gan on the bait to feast, +Which out of his bosom Sir Orm had cut, + So well it pleased her taste. + +And then the lovely little bird + Dropped down on the yellow sand, +And she became the fairest damsel, + Was ever seen in the land. + +The Damsel stood under the linden bough, + Freed was she now from thrall; +Sir Orm he stood so near thereby, + They related their sorrows all. + +“Many thanks to thee, Sir Orm the bold + Thou’st freed me from my woe; +Except beside my snow-white side + Thou sleep shalt nevermoe.” + +Thanks be to him, Sir Orm the bold + He kept his faith so well; +The Monday morn thereafter + His bridal it befell. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W + _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_ + + + + +Footnotes: + + +{5} This ballad is founded on a real character—a miser—who by various +means acquired a considerable property, and was the first person who ever +left “tocher,” that is fortune, to daughter in Man. His name was Mollie +Charane, which words interpreted are “Praise the Lord.” He lived and +possessed an estate on the curragh, a tract of boggy ground, formerly a +forest, on the northern side of the island, between the mighty mountains +of the Snefell range and the sea. + +{13} Previously printed, with a slightly different text, and arranged in +six lines instead of in three four-line stanzas, in _Lavengro_, 1851, +Vol. i, p. 306. + +{25} This Ballad should be compared with _The Cruel Step-dame_, printed +in _The Serpent Knight and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. 30–33. Also with +_The Transformed Damsel_, printed in _The Return of the Dead and Other +Ballads_, 1913, pp. 13–14. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOLLIE CHARANE*** + + +******* This file should be named 27408-0.txt or 27408-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/4/0/27408 + + + +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. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. 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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: Mollie Charane + and Other Ballads + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27408] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOLLIE CHARANE*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and +Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images +from which this transcription was made.</p> +<h1>MOLLIE CHARANE<br /> +<span class="smcap">and 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><br /> +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>MOLLIE CHARANE <a name="citation5"></a><a +href="#footnote5" class="citation">[5]</a></h2> +<p>“O, Mollie Charane, where got you your gold?”<br +/> + Lone, lone you have left me here.<br /> +“O not in the curragh, deep under the mould.”<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<p>“O, Mollie Charane, where got you your stock?”<br +/> + Lone, lone you have left me here.<br /> +“O not in the curragh from under a block.”<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>“O, Mollie Charane, where got you your +goods?”<br /> + Lone, lone you have left me here.<br /> +“O not in the curragh from under two sods.”<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<p>Two pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes—<br /> + Lone, lone you have left me here—<br /> +For twenty-six years old Mollie did use.<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<p>His stockings were white, but his sandals, alack!—<br /> + Lone, lone you have left me here—<br /> +Were not of one colour, one white, t’other black.<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<p>One sandal was white and t’other dark brown—<br /> + Lone, lone you have left me here;—<br /> +But he’d two of one colour for kirk and for town.<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>“O, father, I really can’t walk by your +side”—<br /> + Lone, lone you have left me here—<br /> +“If you go to the church in those sandals of +hide.”<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<p>“O, daughter, my dear, if my brogues give you +pain”—<br /> + Lone, lone you have left me here—<br /> +“There’s that in the coffer will make you look +fain.”<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<p>A million of curses on Mollie Charane—<br /> + Lone, lone you have left me here—<br /> +The first who gave tocher to daughter in Man.<br /> + Lone, lone, and void of cheer.</p> +<h2><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>THE DANES OF YORE</h2> +<p>Well we know from saga<br /> + And from scaldic lore,<br /> +That heroic warriors<br /> + Were the Danes of yore.<br /> +That the noble schildings,<br /> + And the men they led,<br /> +Oft for Danish honour<br /> + Stoutly fought and bled.</p> +<p>What a time for Athelings,<br /> + What a time for thanes!<br /> +What a time for yeomen,<br /> + True devoted Danes!<br /> +But I’ll say with pleasure<br /> + That, in ancient days,<br /> +Death did not annihilate<br /> + All that noble race.</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>Frederic see, exalted<br /> + On his father’s throne,<br /> +Sits a splendid monarch,<br /> + Brighter never shone.<br /> +Long to him be granted<br /> + That of Grendel’s kin<br /> +He may check the cruel<br /> + Cursed deeds of sin.</p> +<p>And that long may flourish<br /> + Round about the King,<br /> +They who love gold treasures<br /> + All around to fling.<br /> +Lords, the first of heroes,<br /> + With their trenchant swords;<br /> +Counsellors held in honour,<br /> + For their golden words.</p> +<p>To the Lord of angels<br /> + Praise devout I’ll sing,<br /> +That from out the grave-hill<br /> + ’Twas my lot to bring<br /> +<!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>Golden dishes, goblets,<br /> + Things of mighty worth,<br /> +Which for thousand winters<br /> + Lay entombed in earth.</p> +<p>That men in gold smithery<br /> + Cunning, might from them<br /> +For the grey haired hero<br /> + Frame a diadem.<br /> +Under which his grey locks<br /> + Might all glorious shine,<br /> +Whilst the sun, bright flaming,<br /> + Seeks the western brine.</p> +<p>Until, tired of glory,<br /> + Such as meets it here,<br /> +Soars the hero’s spirit<br /> + To a higher sphere;<br /> +Where, with souls united<br /> + Of departed friends,<br /> +’Twill experience glory<br /> + Such as never ends.</p> +<h2><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>A SURVEY OF DEATH</h2> +<p>My blood is freezing, my senses reel,<br /> +So horror stricken at heart I feel;<br /> +Thinking how like a fast stream we range<br /> +Nearer and nearer to that dread change,<br /> +When the body becomes so stark and cold,<br /> +And man doth crumble away to mould.</p> +<p>Boast not, proud maid, for the grave doth gape,<br /> +And strangely altered reflects thy shape;<br /> +No dainty charms it doth disclose,<br /> +Death will ravish thy beauty’s rose;<br /> +And all the rest will leave to thee<br /> +When dug thy chilly grave shall be.</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>O, ye who are tripping the floor so light,<br /> +In delicate robes as the lily white,<br /> +Think of the fading funeral wreath,<br /> +The dying struggle, the sweat of death—<br /> +Think on the dismal death array,<br /> +When the pallid corse is consigned to clay!</p> +<p>O, ye who in quest of riches roam,<br /> +Reflect that ashes ye must become;<br /> +And the wealth ye win will brightly shine<br /> +When buried are ye and all your line;<br /> +For your many chests of much loved gold<br /> +You’ll nothing obtain but a little mould!</p> +<h2><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>DESIDERABILIA VITÆ <a name="citation13"></a><a +href="#footnote13" class="citation">[13]</a></h2> +<p>Give me the haunch of a buck to eat,<br /> + And to drink Madeira old;<br /> +And a gentle wife to rest with,<br /> + And in my arms to fold.</p> +<p>An Arabic book to study,<br /> + A gipsy pony to ride;<br /> +And a house to live in shaded by trees,<br /> + Near to a river’s side.</p> +<p>With such good things around me,<br /> + And with good health withal,<br /> +Though I should live for a hundred years<br /> + For death I would not call.</p> +<h2><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>SAINT JACOB</h2> +<p>Saint Jacob he takes our blest Lord by the hand:<br /> +“I gladly would Christianize Garsia land.”</p> +<p>“O how wilt thou bring it within Christian pale?<br /> +No ship hast thou here o’er the salt sea to +sail.”</p> +<p>“Thy power, O Lord, is so wondrously great,<br /> +Full quickly a ship Thou for me canst create.”</p> +<p>“Saint Jacob, hie down to the salt ocean strand,<br /> +There standeth so little a stone by the land.”</p> +<p>Saint Jacob he taketh a book in his hand,<br /> +And down he proceeds to the salt ocean strand.</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>Saint Jacob he made o’er the stone the +cross-mark,<br /> +From the land straight it floated, as though ’twere a +bark.</p> +<p>It rode o’er the billows so rapid and free,<br /> +Right, right towards Garsia promontoree.</p> +<p>So rapid the stone to glide thither began,<br /> +A hundred miles space in one short hour it ran.</p> +<p>In comes a foot-boy, to the King doffs his bonnet:<br /> +“Here cometh a stone, and a man sits upon it.”</p> +<p>A woman rushed in, in her eyes wonder shone:<br /> +“Here cometh a man, and he sits on a stone.”</p> +<p>King Garsia taketh his axe in his hand,<br /> +And down he proceeds to the salt ocean strand.</p> +<p>“Now hear thou, Saint Jacob, I say unto thee,<br /> +What hast thou in this land, in this land here with +me?”</p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>“Unto thee I am come to this land ’cross the +brine,<br /> +Because that my Maker is greater than thine.”</p> +<p>“O how can thy Maker be greater than mine?<br /> +Mine drinks every day the brown mead and the wine.”</p> +<p>“O then my Creator is greater than thine,<br /> +For mine can the water convert into wine.</p> +<p>“My Maker can turn the black mould into bread,<br /> +Can give life back to them who long, long have been +dead.”</p> +<p>“If thou canst restore me my dearly loved son,<br /> +I’ll trust in thy Maker, and no other one.</p> +<p>“If I again view him, with flesh and hair dight,<br /> +As he fifteen years since disappeared from my sight;</p> +<p>“If I get him again both with hawk and with hound,<br /> +Just, just as he sank in the depths of the sound;</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>“With hair on his head, and with flesh on his +bone,<br /> +As though he the pang of death never had known.”</p> +<p>Then the blessed Saint Jacob upon his book pored:<br /> +“’Twill be no easy matter to get him +restored.”</p> +<p>When he had stood reading a wee little time,<br /> +He raised up the man from hell’s sorrowful clime.</p> +<p>“Now again thou hast got him with flesh and hair +dight,<br /> +As he fifteen years since disappeared from thy sight.</p> +<p>“Thou hast got him again, both with hawk and with +hound,<br /> +Just, just as he sank in the ocean profound.</p> +<p>“With hair on his head, and with flesh on his bone,<br +/> +As though he the pang of death never had known.”</p> +<p><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>“Now hear thou, my dear son, so fine and so +fair,<br /> +What news from thy journey afar dost thou bear?”</p> +<p>“The news which I bring from the far distant place,<br +/> +Is that one little knows of the other’s hard case.</p> +<p>“There the woman, who’s hated the child of her +womb,<br /> +Out of the snake-tower can ne’er hope to come.</p> +<p>“There the cruel step-mother, her child who has +slain,<br /> +Goes begirt with a sword fraught with festering bane.</p> +<p>“The merchants who here in heaps money up-rake,<br /> +There hiss in the likeness of serpent and snake.</p> +<p>“The Sysselmen, wretches with hearts hard as stone,<br +/> +There in the snake-tower despairingly moan.”</p> +<h2><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>THE RENEGADE</h2> +<p>Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,<br /> + Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;<br /> +The pasha on sofa was sitting,<br /> + Midst his harem’s glorious centre.</p> +<p>Greek sang, and Tcherkass, for his pleasure,<br /> + And Kergoosian captive is dancing;<br /> +In the eyes of the first heaven’s azure,<br /> + In the others black Eblis is glancing.</p> +<p>But the pasha’s attention is failing,<br /> + O’er his visage his fair turban stealeth;<br +/> +From chebouk he sleep is inhaling,<br /> + Whilst around him sweet vapours he dealeth.</p> +<p>What rumour without is there breeding?<br /> + Ye fair ranks asunder why wend ye?<br /> +Kyslar Aga, a strange captive leading,<br /> + Cometh forward, and crieth “Efendy.”</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>“Whose face has the power when present<br /> + ’Mong the stars round the divan which +muster?<br /> +Who amidst the gems of night’s crescent<br /> + Has the blaze of Aldeboran’s lustre?</p> +<p>“Glance nearer, bright star! I have tiding,<br /> + Glad tiding. Behold how in duty<br /> +From far Lehistan the wind, gliding,<br /> + Has brought this fresh tribute of beauty.</p> +<p>“In the padishaw’s garden there bloometh<br /> + In proud Istambul no such blossom;<br /> +From the wintry regions she cometh,<br /> + Whose memory so lives in thy bosom.”</p> +<p>Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,<br /> + At her beauty all wonder intensely;<br /> +One moment the pasha surveyed her,<br /> + Then, dropping his chebouk, without sense lay.</p> +<p>His turban has fallen from his forehead,<br /> + To assist him the bystanders started.<br /> +His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid,—<br /> + See, the Renegade’s soul has departed!</p> +<h2><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>AN IMPROMPTU</h2> +<p>And darest thou thyself compare<br /> + With one who quaffs at Helicon;<br /> +Whose playfellows the Muses are,<br /> + And whom Apollo calleth son?<br /> +Who, had he lived in olden day,<br /> + With some fierce host had strode along;<br /> +Like Taillefer to Hasting’s fray,<br /> + Cheering the Normans with his song.</p> +<p>The laurel wreath Apollo gave<br /> + I would not change for kingly crown;<br /> +A King is but an exalted slave,<br /> + Rebellion soon may hurl him down.<br /> +But who can force me from the height<br /> + Whereto I’ve soared on Eagle’s wing?<br +/> +I leave to Monarchs ceaseless fright<br /> + For what the coming day may bring.</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>Though poor I be, I’ve Minstrelsy,<br /> + When fortune frowns I’ll strike my lyre;<br /> +Against the world’s inclemency<br /> + ’Twill warm my soul with heavenly fire.<br /> +Then wonder not if proud the air<br /> + Of one who’s high Apollo’s son;<br /> +Nor henceforth dare thyself compare<br /> + With one who quaffs at Helicon.</p> +<h2><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>A HYMN</h2> +<p>O Jesus, Thou Fountain of solace and gladness<br /> + Of Heaven’s high Three second person +divine;<br /> +Forgive, O forgive me my blindness and madness,<br /> + And guide to Thy kingdom this spirit of mine.</p> +<p> Dearly, O Jesus,<br /> + Thou boughtest me,<br /> + Yon Friday dark<br /> + Upon the tree.</p> +<p> Thy foes were numerous,<br /> + Fierce and fell;<br /> + Few and weak those<br /> + Who wished Thee well.</p> +<p> <!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 24</span>Nigh stood Thy mother,<br /> + Full of fears,<br /> + Wringing her hands<br /> + And bathed in tears.</p> +<p> Often, O Jesus,<br /> + Wilfully<br /> + With my great sins<br /> + I’ve tortured Thee.</p> +<p> Causing Thy wounds<br /> + To open again,<br /> + Waking anew<br /> + The ancient pain.</p> +<p> All the kindness<br /> + Thou hast display’d,<br /> + With black ingratitude<br /> + I’ve repaid.</p> +<p>But Jesus, Creator of earth and of ocean,<br /> + Who me, a vile sinner, so dearly didst buy;<br /> +My damnable ignorance turn to devotion,<br /> + And guide my poor soul to Thy courts in the sky.</p> +<h2><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>THE TRANSFORMED DAMSEL. <a name="citation25"></a><a +href="#footnote25" class="citation">[25]</a></h2> +<p>My father up of the country rode,<br /> + A maiden he would wed;<br /> +And a foul witch he married then,<br /> + If the whole truth be said.</p> +<p>The first night they together slept,<br /> + She was a mother kind to me;<br /> +But when the second night arrived,<br /> + A cruel stepmother was she.</p> +<p>I was seated at my father’s board<br /> + With dogs and whelps amused;<br /> +Towards me striding my stepmother came,<br /> + And cruelly me she used.</p> +<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>She changed me to a little hind,<br /> + Bade me into the forest wend;<br /> +My seven maids then she changed to wolves,<br /> + And ordered them my flesh to rend.</p> +<p>But my seven maids would rend me not,<br /> + So dearly me they loved;<br /> +Then vexed sore my step-dame was,<br /> + That no worse my fortune proved.</p> +<p>Sir Orm he serves in the King’s palace,<br /> + A Knight is he so fair;<br /> +He sighs for the maiden day and night,<br /> + But in secret he keeps his care.</p> +<p>Sir Orm he rode from the King’s palace,<br /> + He could enjoy no peace;<br /> +He rode into the good green wood,<br /> + The hart and hind to chase.</p> +<p>Sir Orm set his bow his knee before,<br /> + He rode to the hind so near;<br /> +But the hind would not from the sleuth-hounds flee,<br /> + For the Knight to her was dear.</p> +<p><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>But the hounds advanced to the hind so near,<br /> + That the hind was forced to fly;<br /> +She changed herself to a little bird,<br /> + And flew high up in the sky.</p> +<p>Anon down flew the little bird,<br /> + Perched a linden bough upon;<br /> +Sir Orm he stood there down below,<br /> + And sorely did he moan.</p> +<p>Down flew the lovely little bird,<br /> + And ’gan on the bait to feast,<br /> +Which out of his bosom Sir Orm had cut,<br /> + So well it pleased her taste.</p> +<p>And then the lovely little bird<br /> + Dropped down on the yellow sand,<br /> +And she became the fairest damsel,<br /> + Was ever seen in the land.</p> +<p>The Damsel stood under the linden bough,<br /> + Freed was she now from thrall;<br /> +Sir Orm he stood so near thereby,<br /> + They related their sorrows all.</p> +<p><!-- page 28--><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>“Many thanks to thee, Sir Orm the bold<br /> + Thou’st freed me from my woe;<br /> +Except beside my snow-white side<br /> + Thou sleep shalt nevermoe.”</p> +<p>Thanks be to him, Sir Orm the bold<br /> + He kept his faith so well;<br /> +The Monday morn thereafter<br /> + His bridal it befell.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W<br /> +<i>Edition limited to Thirty Copies</i></p> +<h2>Footnotes:</h2> +<p><a name="footnote5"></a><a href="#citation5" +class="footnote">[5]</a> This ballad is founded on a real +character—a miser—who by various means acquired a +considerable property, and was the first person who ever left +“tocher,” that is fortune, to daughter in Man. +His name was Mollie Charane, which words interpreted are +“Praise the Lord.” He lived and possessed an +estate on the curragh, a tract of boggy ground, formerly a +forest, on the northern side of the island, between the mighty +mountains of the Snefell range and the sea.</p> +<p><a name="footnote13"></a><a href="#citation13" +class="footnote">[13]</a> Previously printed, with a +slightly different text, and arranged in six lines instead of in +three four-line stanzas, in <i>Lavengro</i>, 1851, Vol. i, p. +306.</p> +<p><a name="footnote25"></a><a href="#citation25" +class="footnote">[25]</a> This Ballad should be compared +with <i>The Cruel Step-dame</i>, printed in <i>The Serpent Knight +and Other Ballads</i>, 1913, pp. 30–33. Also with +<i>The Transformed Damsel</i>, printed in <i>The Return of the +Dead and Other Ballads</i>, 1913, pp. 13–14.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOLLIE CHARANE***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 27408-h.htm or 27408-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/4/0/27408 + + + +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. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. 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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: Mollie Charane + and Other Ballads + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27408] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOLLIE CHARANE*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, +UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was +made. + + + + + + MOLLIE CHARANE + 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_. + + + + +MOLLIE CHARANE {5} + + +"O, Mollie Charane, where got you your gold?" + Lone, lone you have left me here. +"O not in the curragh, deep under the mould." + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +"O, Mollie Charane, where got you your stock?" + Lone, lone you have left me here. +"O not in the curragh from under a block." + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +"O, Mollie Charane, where got you your goods?" + Lone, lone you have left me here. +"O not in the curragh from under two sods." + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +Two pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes-- + Lone, lone you have left me here-- +For twenty-six years old Mollie did use. + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +His stockings were white, but his sandals, alack!-- + Lone, lone you have left me here-- +Were not of one colour, one white, t'other black. + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +One sandal was white and t'other dark brown-- + Lone, lone you have left me here;-- +But he'd two of one colour for kirk and for town. + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +"O, father, I really can't walk by your side"-- + Lone, lone you have left me here-- +"If you go to the church in those sandals of hide." + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +"O, daughter, my dear, if my brogues give you pain"-- + Lone, lone you have left me here-- +"There's that in the coffer will make you look fain." + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + +A million of curses on Mollie Charane-- + Lone, lone you have left me here-- +The first who gave tocher to daughter in Man. + Lone, lone, and void of cheer. + + + + +THE DANES OF YORE + + +Well we know from saga + And from scaldic lore, +That heroic warriors + Were the Danes of yore. +That the noble schildings, + And the men they led, +Oft for Danish honour + Stoutly fought and bled. + +What a time for Athelings, + What a time for thanes! +What a time for yeomen, + True devoted Danes! +But I'll say with pleasure + That, in ancient days, +Death did not annihilate + All that noble race. + +Frederic see, exalted + On his father's throne, +Sits a splendid monarch, + Brighter never shone. +Long to him be granted + That of Grendel's kin +He may check the cruel + Cursed deeds of sin. + +And that long may flourish + Round about the King, +They who love gold treasures + All around to fling. +Lords, the first of heroes, + With their trenchant swords; +Counsellors held in honour, + For their golden words. + +To the Lord of angels + Praise devout I'll sing, +That from out the grave-hill + 'Twas my lot to bring +Golden dishes, goblets, + Things of mighty worth, +Which for thousand winters + Lay entombed in earth. + +That men in gold smithery + Cunning, might from them +For the grey haired hero + Frame a diadem. +Under which his grey locks + Might all glorious shine, +Whilst the sun, bright flaming, + Seeks the western brine. + +Until, tired of glory, + Such as meets it here, +Soars the hero's spirit + To a higher sphere; +Where, with souls united + Of departed friends, +'Twill experience glory + Such as never ends. + + + + +A SURVEY OF DEATH + + +My blood is freezing, my senses reel, +So horror stricken at heart I feel; +Thinking how like a fast stream we range +Nearer and nearer to that dread change, +When the body becomes so stark and cold, +And man doth crumble away to mould. + +Boast not, proud maid, for the grave doth gape, +And strangely altered reflects thy shape; +No dainty charms it doth disclose, +Death will ravish thy beauty's rose; +And all the rest will leave to thee +When dug thy chilly grave shall be. + +O, ye who are tripping the floor so light, +In delicate robes as the lily white, +Think of the fading funeral wreath, +The dying struggle, the sweat of death-- +Think on the dismal death array, +When the pallid corse is consigned to clay! + +O, ye who in quest of riches roam, +Reflect that ashes ye must become; +And the wealth ye win will brightly shine +When buried are ye and all your line; +For your many chests of much loved gold +You'll nothing obtain but a little mould! + + + + +DESIDERABILIA VITAE {13} + + +Give me the haunch of a buck to eat, + And to drink Madeira old; +And a gentle wife to rest with, + And in my arms to fold. + +An Arabic book to study, + A gipsy pony to ride; +And a house to live in shaded by trees, + Near to a river's side. + +With such good things around me, + And with good health withal, +Though I should live for a hundred years + For death I would not call. + + + + +SAINT JACOB + + +Saint Jacob he takes our blest Lord by the hand: +"I gladly would Christianize Garsia land." + +"O how wilt thou bring it within Christian pale? +No ship hast thou here o'er the salt sea to sail." + +"Thy power, O Lord, is so wondrously great, +Full quickly a ship Thou for me canst create." + +"Saint Jacob, hie down to the salt ocean strand, +There standeth so little a stone by the land." + +Saint Jacob he taketh a book in his hand, +And down he proceeds to the salt ocean strand. + +Saint Jacob he made o'er the stone the cross-mark, +From the land straight it floated, as though 'twere a bark. + +It rode o'er the billows so rapid and free, +Right, right towards Garsia promontoree. + +So rapid the stone to glide thither began, +A hundred miles space in one short hour it ran. + +In comes a foot-boy, to the King doffs his bonnet: +"Here cometh a stone, and a man sits upon it." + +A woman rushed in, in her eyes wonder shone: +"Here cometh a man, and he sits on a stone." + +King Garsia taketh his axe in his hand, +And down he proceeds to the salt ocean strand. + +"Now hear thou, Saint Jacob, I say unto thee, +What hast thou in this land, in this land here with me?" + +"Unto thee I am come to this land 'cross the brine, +Because that my Maker is greater than thine." + +"O how can thy Maker be greater than mine? +Mine drinks every day the brown mead and the wine." + +"O then my Creator is greater than thine, +For mine can the water convert into wine. + +"My Maker can turn the black mould into bread, +Can give life back to them who long, long have been dead." + +"If thou canst restore me my dearly loved son, +I'll trust in thy Maker, and no other one. + +"If I again view him, with flesh and hair dight, +As he fifteen years since disappeared from my sight; + +"If I get him again both with hawk and with hound, +Just, just as he sank in the depths of the sound; + +"With hair on his head, and with flesh on his bone, +As though he the pang of death never had known." + +Then the blessed Saint Jacob upon his book pored: +"'Twill be no easy matter to get him restored." + +When he had stood reading a wee little time, +He raised up the man from hell's sorrowful clime. + +"Now again thou hast got him with flesh and hair dight, +As he fifteen years since disappeared from thy sight. + +"Thou hast got him again, both with hawk and with hound, +Just, just as he sank in the ocean profound. + +"With hair on his head, and with flesh on his bone, +As though he the pang of death never had known." + +"Now hear thou, my dear son, so fine and so fair, +What news from thy journey afar dost thou bear?" + +"The news which I bring from the far distant place, +Is that one little knows of the other's hard case. + +"There the woman, who's hated the child of her womb, +Out of the snake-tower can ne'er hope to come. + +"There the cruel step-mother, her child who has slain, +Goes begirt with a sword fraught with festering bane. + +"The merchants who here in heaps money up-rake, +There hiss in the likeness of serpent and snake. + +"The Sysselmen, wretches with hearts hard as stone, +There in the snake-tower despairingly moan." + + + + +THE RENEGADE + + +Now pay ye the heed that is fitting, + Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure; +The pasha on sofa was sitting, + Midst his harem's glorious centre. + +Greek sang, and Tcherkass, for his pleasure, + And Kergoosian captive is dancing; +In the eyes of the first heaven's azure, + In the others black Eblis is glancing. + +But the pasha's attention is failing, + O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth; +From chebouk he sleep is inhaling, + Whilst around him sweet vapours he dealeth. + +What rumour without is there breeding? + Ye fair ranks asunder why wend ye? +Kyslar Aga, a strange captive leading, + Cometh forward, and crieth "Efendy." + +"Whose face has the power when present + 'Mong the stars round the divan which muster? +Who amidst the gems of night's crescent + Has the blaze of Aldeboran's lustre? + +"Glance nearer, bright star! I have tiding, + Glad tiding. Behold how in duty +From far Lehistan the wind, gliding, + Has brought this fresh tribute of beauty. + +"In the padishaw's garden there bloometh + In proud Istambul no such blossom; +From the wintry regions she cometh, + Whose memory so lives in thy bosom." + +Then the gauzes removes he which shade her, + At her beauty all wonder intensely; +One moment the pasha surveyed her, + Then, dropping his chebouk, without sense lay. + +His turban has fallen from his forehead, + To assist him the bystanders started. +His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid,-- + See, the Renegade's soul has departed! + + + + +AN IMPROMPTU + + +And darest thou thyself compare + With one who quaffs at Helicon; +Whose playfellows the Muses are, + And whom Apollo calleth son? +Who, had he lived in olden day, + With some fierce host had strode along; +Like Taillefer to Hasting's fray, + Cheering the Normans with his song. + +The laurel wreath Apollo gave + I would not change for kingly crown; +A King is but an exalted slave, + Rebellion soon may hurl him down. +But who can force me from the height + Whereto I've soared on Eagle's wing? +I leave to Monarchs ceaseless fright + For what the coming day may bring. + +Though poor I be, I've Minstrelsy, + When fortune frowns I'll strike my lyre; +Against the world's inclemency + 'Twill warm my soul with heavenly fire. +Then wonder not if proud the air + Of one who's high Apollo's son; +Nor henceforth dare thyself compare + With one who quaffs at Helicon. + + + + +A HYMN + + +O Jesus, Thou Fountain of solace and gladness + Of Heaven's high Three second person divine; +Forgive, O forgive me my blindness and madness, + And guide to Thy kingdom this spirit of mine. + + Dearly, O Jesus, + Thou boughtest me, + Yon Friday dark + Upon the tree. + + Thy foes were numerous, + Fierce and fell; + Few and weak those + Who wished Thee well. + + Nigh stood Thy mother, + Full of fears, + Wringing her hands + And bathed in tears. + + Often, O Jesus, + Wilfully + With my great sins + I've tortured Thee. + + Causing Thy wounds + To open again, + Waking anew + The ancient pain. + + All the kindness + Thou hast display'd, + With black ingratitude + I've repaid. + +But Jesus, Creator of earth and of ocean, + Who me, a vile sinner, so dearly didst buy; +My damnable ignorance turn to devotion, + And guide my poor soul to Thy courts in the sky. + + + + +THE TRANSFORMED DAMSEL. {25} + + +My father up of the country rode, + A maiden he would wed; +And a foul witch he married then, + If the whole truth be said. + +The first night they together slept, + She was a mother kind to me; +But when the second night arrived, + A cruel stepmother was she. + +I was seated at my father's board + With dogs and whelps amused; +Towards me striding my stepmother came, + And cruelly me she used. + +She changed me to a little hind, + Bade me into the forest wend; +My seven maids then she changed to wolves, + And ordered them my flesh to rend. + +But my seven maids would rend me not, + So dearly me they loved; +Then vexed sore my step-dame was, + That no worse my fortune proved. + +Sir Orm he serves in the King's palace, + A Knight is he so fair; +He sighs for the maiden day and night, + But in secret he keeps his care. + +Sir Orm he rode from the King's palace, + He could enjoy no peace; +He rode into the good green wood, + The hart and hind to chase. + +Sir Orm set his bow his knee before, + He rode to the hind so near; +But the hind would not from the sleuth-hounds flee, + For the Knight to her was dear. + +But the hounds advanced to the hind so near, + That the hind was forced to fly; +She changed herself to a little bird, + And flew high up in the sky. + +Anon down flew the little bird, + Perched a linden bough upon; +Sir Orm he stood there down below, + And sorely did he moan. + +Down flew the lovely little bird, + And 'gan on the bait to feast, +Which out of his bosom Sir Orm had cut, + So well it pleased her taste. + +And then the lovely little bird + Dropped down on the yellow sand, +And she became the fairest damsel, + Was ever seen in the land. + +The Damsel stood under the linden bough, + Freed was she now from thrall; +Sir Orm he stood so near thereby, + They related their sorrows all. + +"Many thanks to thee, Sir Orm the bold + Thou'st freed me from my woe; +Except beside my snow-white side + Thou sleep shalt nevermoe." + +Thanks be to him, Sir Orm the bold + He kept his faith so well; +The Monday morn thereafter + His bridal it befell. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W + _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_ + + + + +Footnotes: + + +{5} This ballad is founded on a real character--a miser--who by various +means acquired a considerable property, and was the first person who ever +left "tocher," that is fortune, to daughter in Man. His name was Mollie +Charane, which words interpreted are "Praise the Lord." He lived and +possessed an estate on the curragh, a tract of boggy ground, formerly a +forest, on the northern side of the island, between the mighty mountains +of the Snefell range and the sea. + +{13} Previously printed, with a slightly different text, and arranged in +six lines instead of in three four-line stanzas, in _Lavengro_, 1851, +Vol. i, p. 306. + +{25} This Ballad should be compared with _The Cruel Step-dame_, printed +in _The Serpent Knight and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. 30-33. 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