Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads Songs And
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads Songs And
Thomas Percy
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" Dead with affright at firft we lay j 165 " But roufing up anon, " We ran to fee our little lord : " Our little lord was gone ! " But how or where we could not tell ; " For lying on the ground, 170 " In deep and magic flumbers laid, " The nurfes there we found. " O grief on grief ! lord Albret faid : No more his tongue cou'd fay, When falling in a deadly Avoone, 175 Long time he lifelefs lay. At length reflor'd to life and fenfe He nourilht cndlcfa wee, VOL. III. Q_ No 226 ANCIENT SONGS No fut...ure joy his heart could tafte, No future comfort knovve. ISt* So withers on the mountain top A fair and ftately oake, Whofe vigorous arms are torne away, By fome rude thunder-ftroke. At length his caftle irkfome grew, 185 He loathes his wonted home ; His native country he forfakes In foreign lands to roame. There up and downe he wandered far, Clad in a palmer's gowne j 190 Till his brown locks grew white as wool, His beard as thiftle downe. At length, all wearied, down in death He laid his reverend head.
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