Die Elfen in den englischen und schottischen Balladen ...

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Druck von Franzen & Grosses, 1899 - 26 sider
 

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Side 8 - True Thomas he took off his hat, And bowed him low down till his knee: "All hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven! For your peer on earth I never did see.
Side 17 - Their oaten pipes blew wondrous shrill. The hemlock small blew clear; And louder notes from hemlock large, And bog-reed, struck the ear; But solemn sounds, or sober thoughts, The Fairies cannot bear.
Side 11 - Harp and carp, Thomas," she said; " Harp and carp along wi me; And if ye dare to kiss my lips, Sure of your bodie I will be." — "Betide me weal, betide me woe, That weird shall never daunton me." — Syne he has kissed her rosy lips, All underneath the Eildon Tree. "Now, ye maun go wi...
Side 10 - I'ma fairy, lyth and limb; Fair lady, view me well. " But we, that live in Fairyland No sickness know, nor pain; I quit my body when I will, And take to it again, " I quit my body when I please, Or unto it repair; We can inhabit, at our ease, In either earth or air. " Our shapes and size we can convert To either large or small; An old nutshell's the same to us As is the lofty hall.
Side 14 - Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has broded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's awa to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.
Side 13 - She's ta'en awa the bonniest knight In a' my cumpanie. " But had I kenn'd, Tamlane," she say#, " A lady wad borrow'd thee — I wad ta'en out thy twa grey een, Put in twa een o
Side 5 - O no, O no, True Thomas,' she says, 'That fruit maun not be touched by thee For a' the plagues that are in hell Light on the fruit of this countrie.
Side 10 - It's a very strange matter, fair maiden," said he, "I canna blaw my horn but ye call on me. 5 "But will ye go to yon greenwood side? If ye canna gang, I will cause you to ride.
Side 8 - O no, O no, True Thomas," she says, "That name does not belong to me; I am but the queen of fair Elfland, And I'm come here for to visit thee.
Side 11 - s away to Carterhaugh As fast as she could win. Instead of a 10, 11, b has : He 's taen her by the milk-white hand, And by the grass-green sleeve, He's led her to the fairy ground, And spierd at her nae leave.

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