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The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers, and Other Ballads - George Henry Borrow
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Title: The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers
and Other Ballads
Author: Anonymous
Editor: Thomas Wise
Release Date: May 15, 2009 [eBook #28826]
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF DEIRDRA, KING BYRGE
AND HIS BROTHERS***
Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE SONG OF DEIRDRA
king byrge and his brothers
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.
THE SONG OF DEIRDRA
Farewell, grey Albyn, much loved land,
I ne’er shall see thy hills again;
Upon those hills I oft would stand
And view the chase sweep o’er the plain.
’Twas pleasant from their tops I ween
To see the stag that bounding ran;
And all the rout of hunters keen,
The sons of Usna in the van.
The chiefs of Albyn feasted high,
Amidst them Usna’s children shone;
And Nasa kissed in secrecy
The daughter fair of high Dundron.
To her a milk-white doe he sent,
With little fawn that frisked and played
And once to visit her he went,
As home from Inverness he strayed.
The news was scarcely brought to me
When jealous rage inflamed my mind;
I took my boat and rushed to sea,
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