The Goblin Groom: a Tale of Dunse

by R. O. Fenwick

XXIII.

On Flodden’s field there stands a bush,
A willow bush where sedges grow,
The fav’rite haunt of Friar Rush:[13]
This bush the neighb’ring shepherds know:
’Twas here the hounds had killed their prey,
And vanished here the Goblin fay;
And, even to this very day,
The passing shepherd calls the bush,
The Winning-Post of Friar Rush;
And, therefore, I may well presume,
That Friar Rush was Goblin Groom.