. Children's ballads from history and folklore . I watched her in the grotto glide,Behind the coppiced screen ; And wlien with talk, along the wallCame Leicester, with the Queen, > IV ^^l .^^/ 7 & ^% c^. Ci ^t^ — A girl as fair as Amys self, Here broke upon my trance,And put to rout with merry shout My vision of romance. Why ! ■weve been wandering up and down, And searching for an hour ;And find you now asleep, I \ow. In Amy Robsarls Tower ! Her mirthful voice dissolved the spell (^More potent than the Earls),And looking round, I only found A band of saucy girls. The sun was hastening down


. Children's ballads from history and folklore . I watched her in the grotto glide,Behind the coppiced screen ; And wlien with talk, along the wallCame Leicester, with the Queen, > IV ^^l .^^/ 7 & ^% c^. Ci ^t^ — A girl as fair as Amys self, Here broke upon my trance,And put to rout with merry shout My vision of romance. Why ! ■weve been wandering up and down, And searching for an hour ;And find you now asleep, I \ow. In Amy Robsarls Tower ! Her mirthful voice dissolved the spell (^More potent than the Earls),And looking round, I only found A band of saucy girls. The sun was hastening down tne west, And from the crannied nooksI heard the caws of noisy daws, And saw the wheeling rooks. But on Sir Walters pictured pageSweet Amy does not seem To walk again in life, as whenShe crossed mv waking dream.


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