. Children's ballads from history and folklore . d,For close to the forest the Kings castle stood. Right over the pathway a little gate backward and forward it ceaselessly creaked and it squeaked, and it mournfully moaned and it groaned, and it plaintively cried: • Please shut me and latch me, I pray, pretty maid,It hurts my back badly to swing so, it Prince Fm to marry, youll just have to cant stop to bother for such a small thing ! While crossing the meadow, she met the red cow : Pray stop, pretty maiden, and please milk me now ! Im in a great hur
. Children's ballads from history and folklore . d,For close to the forest the Kings castle stood. Right over the pathway a little gate backward and forward it ceaselessly creaked and it squeaked, and it mournfully moaned and it groaned, and it plaintively cried: • Please shut me and latch me, I pray, pretty maid,It hurts my back badly to swing so, it Prince Fm to marry, youll just have to cant stop to bother for such a small thing ! While crossing the meadow, she met the red cow : Pray stop, pretty maiden, and please milk me now ! Im in a great hurry, replied the rude maid,I cant stop for trifles — the Prince Im to wed. As Drontha came near to the foot of the hill,She heard a low voice from the old water-mill :■ O prav, prett)- maiden, just turn my big wheel!Im tired of standing here silent and still ! . Indeed I wont, Drontha then rudely replied ; For a nap in the hopper, Fm going to hide ;And that is the reason I stopped here to-day ■—■To marry Prince Imar Fm now on my Then into the hopper she gave a gay leap,She hid in the corn, and she fell fast dream that she sat like a queen on athrone,n velvet and jewels that si:iarkled and shone. Ilie crone returned home, and at once missed the sack,And soon started off on tlie naughty maids trotted along till she came to the gate,That, creaking and moaning, swung early and O gate o mine, O gate o mine,Sa\-, have you seen that girl o mine ? • A rude girl passed an hour ago,\\ho left me swinging to and fro. Thats just my Drontha, the rude, rude maid,Twas she, Im certain, the old crone said. O cow o mine, O cow o mine. Say, have you seen that girl o mine? ■ A rude girl passed an hour ago,Wlio wouldnt milk me, that I know. Thats just my Drontha, the rude, rude maid!Twas she, Im certain, the old crone said. O mill o mine, O mill o mine, Sav, have you seen that girl o mine } A girls in the hopper fast asleep, \\av down in the corn shes buried
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