We'll rest a while and ye may dine."

When he had eaten and drunk his fill—

"Lay down your head upon my knee,"

The lady said, "ere we climb yon hill,

And I will shew you ferlies three.

"O see not ye yon narrow road,

So thick beset with thorns and briars?

That is the path of righteousness,

Though after it but few enquires.

"And see ye not that braid braid road,