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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TWA CORBIES. A SCOTTISH BALLAD. There were twa corbies sat on a tree Large and black as black might be, And one the other gan say, Where shall we go and dine to-day ? Shall we go dine by the wild salt sea ? Shall we go dine 'neath the greenwood tree As I sat on the deep sea sand, I saw a fair ship nigh at land, I waved my wings, I bent my beak, The ship sunk, and I heard a shriek; There they lie, one, two, and three, I shall dine by the wild salt sea. Come, I will show ye a sweeter sight, A lonesome glen and a new slain knight; His blood yet on the grass is hot, His sword half drawn, his shafts unshot, And no one kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady's away with another mate, So we shall make our dinner sweet; Our dinner's sure, our feasting free, Come, and dine by the greenwood tree. Ye shall sit on his white hause-bane, I will pick out his bonny blue een; Ye'll take a tress of his yellow hair, To theak yere nest when it grows bare; The gowden down on his young chin Will do to sewe my young ones in. O cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms sing in the tree; At his head a turf, at his feet a stone, He will sleep, nor hear the maiden's moan; O'er his white bones the birds shall fly, The wild deer bound and foxes cry. SIR PATRICK SPENS Lays claim to a high and remote antiquity. It is supposed by Bishop Percy to be founded on some event of real history; but in what age the hero of it lived, or when the fatal expedition, which it records, happened, he confesses himself unable to determine. Sir Walter Scott and Mr. Fin- lay, in their respective collections, concur in assigning it a like foundati...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217518987 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217518982 |
| Weight | 1.07 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 328 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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