. Children's ballads from history and folklore . •EDEL-NI-. Ncm, when you knock at that same oakA sober old Goody of some threescoreComes primly forth in a cap and shawl,And shows you Edenhall. Old chairs, old settles, a mighty jackFor the roasting of beeves, a dungeon blaThe heirs quaint cradle, the rusty pallOf the Lords of Edenhall. And chiefest of all its treasures, stands,Safe-hidden from intermeddling hands,In a guarded cupboard built into the wrThe Luck of Edenhall. Tis an oddly-shaped goblet, strong andEnamelled by some glass-working trickUnknown to our modern craft —thats allThis Luck

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. Children's ballads from history and folklore . •EDEL-NI-. Ncm, when you knock at that same oakA sober old Goody of some threescoreComes primly forth in a cap and shawl,And shows you Edenhall. Old chairs, old settles, a mighty jackFor the roasting of beeves, a dungeon blaThe heirs quaint cradle, the rusty pallOf the Lords of Edenhall. And chiefest of all its treasures, stands,Safe-hidden from intermeddling hands,In a guarded cupboard built into the wrThe Luck of Edenhall. Tis an oddly-shaped goblet, strong andEnamelled by some glass-working trickUnknown to our modern craft —thats allThis Luck of Edenhall. They say it was made by the fairies selvesAnd used at the banquets of the elves\\hen their King and their Queen held carnivalIn the woods of Edenhall.

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