This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ..."Oh, bid them all farewell from me, And give my brother my pardon free." y. Two months or three had pass'd away, All warm abed the household lay, --All warm abed, and sleeping light Upon the middle of the night. No sound without, no sound within, When a gentle voice at the door came in: "My father, my mother, for God's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ..."Oh, bid them all farewell from me, And give my brother my pardon free." y. Two months or three had pass'd away, All warm abed the household lay, --All warm abed, and sleeping light Upon the middle of the night. No sound without, no sound within, When a gentle voice at the door came in: "My father, my mother, for God's dear sake, Due prayer for me the priest gar make. "And pray you, too, and mourning wear, For your daughter lies upon her bier." THE GOSS-HAWK. (AR FALC'HOK) This spirited ballad is the popular record of a peasants' war which broke out in Brittany A.d. 1008. Tradition ascribes the outburst to the oppression of the taxgatherers charged to collect the taxes imposed by the Dowager Duchess Hedwig, wife of Duke Geoffrey the First. On his return from a pilgrimage to Rome the Duke was killed by a peasant woman, one of whose hens had been struck down by his falcon. She flung a stone at the offending bird, and brained the Duke by the same blow. This song is still sung in the Black Mountains of Cornouaille, where M. de la Villemarque picked it up from a wooden-shoe maker of Koatskiriou. HE Count's hawk killed the gude wife's hen, For quits the gude wife the Count hath slain, For blood o' the Count, the land's in thrall, Poor folk driven like beasts of stall, Trod under foot by robber-bands, Renders and reivers from Gaulish lands, Renders and reivers, that pike and pull At the call of our Dame, as cow calls bull. Weary of waste, for bare need bold, The young have risen, risen the old, For the blood of a hawk and a hen, no mo, --Bretayne is blood and fire and wo. In the Black Hills, on the eve of St. John, Met round the beal-fire thirty-and-one. And Kado-Gann i' the midst was he, Leant on his fork of iron and tree. "Say, porrid...
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