The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . cattle sidasliing slowly throiigli shallow. des(date pools and cri(d<s. their wet i-edand bhu-k hi(h-s glittering in <inc long line of level light. it was the simple, drearygrandeur of the picture, condiined with the relation of a tragic story, which inspired The Dee] THE SANDS OF DEE: 241 one of tlie most pathetic ballads in the langTiap-e—that lono-, pieicino- wail, The Sandsof Dee : — O Maiy, go and call the cattle liome,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle home Acioss the s
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . cattle sidasliing slowly throiigli shallow. des(date pools and cri(d<s. their wet i-edand bhu-k hi(h-s glittering in <inc long line of level light. it was the simple, drearygrandeur of the picture, condiined with the relation of a tragic story, which inspired The Dee] THE SANDS OF DEE: 241 one of tlie most pathetic ballads in the langTiap-e—that lono-, pieicino- wail, The Sandsof Dee : — O Maiy, go and call the cattle liome,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle home Acioss the sands of western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The western tide crept up along the oer and oer the sand,And round and round the siind, As far as eye could blinding mist came down and hid the land: And never home came she. ? ^ * «? « They rowed her in across the rolling cruel crawling foam,The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea :But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee. Aaron
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