Traditional Tales of the English And Scottish Peasantry volume 2
Traditional Tales of the English And Scottish Peasantry volume 2
Robert Burns And Allan Cunningham
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" God guide me, Maud Marchbank, " cried William Dacre, " ye'll drown the poor lad out of pure love, — I think, " con- tinued he, stepping back, and shaking the brine from his clothes, " I am the mad person myself — a caress and a kiss from young Frank of Derwentwater is making her comfortable enough. Alas ! but youth be easily pleased — it is as the northern song says — " Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair';" but old age is a delightless time !" To moor the bark was the labour of a few mo...ments ; and fathers, and mothers, and sisters, and sweethearts, welcomed the youths they had long reckoned among the dead, with affection and tears. All had some friendly hand and eye to welcome and rejoice in them, save the brave old mariner, Richard Faulder alone. To him no one spoke, on him no eye was turned ; all seemed desirous of shunning communi- cation with a man to whom common belief RICHARD FAULDER, MARINER. 143 attributed endowments and powers, which came not as knowledge and might come to other men ; and whose wisdom was of that kind against which the most prudent divines, and the most skilful legislators, directed the rebuke of church and law.
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