Story-Telling Ballads / Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading

CONTENTS

THE SALT BLUE SEAS
The Stormy Winds Do Blow		2
Sir Patrick Spens		3
The DÆmon Lover		7
The Mermaid	Dr. John Leyden	10
A-HARROWING O’ THE BORDER
The Galloway Raid		20
The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase		21
The Ballad of Meikle-Mouthed Meg		32
Belted Will	Frederick Sheldon	47
BRAVE HEARTS AND PROUD
Earl Haldan’s Daughter	Charles Kingsley	58
Lady Clare	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	59
Proud Lady Margaret		62
The Famous Flower of Serving-Men		65
Cochrane’s Bonny Grizzy		70
The Greeting of Kynast	Charles T. Brooks, from RÜckert	74
LAYS O’ FAËRIE
The Fairy Tempter	Samuel Lover	80
Alice Brand	Sir Walter Scott	81
The Erl-King	Sir Walter Scott, from Goethe	86
The Fairy Thorn	Samuel Ferguson	87
La Belle Dame sans Merci	John Keats	91
Thomas the Rhymer		93
The Kelpie of Corrievreckan	Charles Mackay	97
Kilmeny	The Ettrick Shepherd	101
LAYS O’ WONDER
The Wee Wee Man		114
The Earl of Mar’s Daughter		115
Kemp Owyne		122
The Lady of Shalott	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	124
The Singing Leaves	James Russell Lowell	131
The Luck of Edenhall	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from Uhland	135
May of the Moril Glen	The Ettrick Shepherd	138
The Laidley Worm o’ Spindleston-Heughs		148
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