Story-Telling Ballads / Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading

by Unknown

I might have been beloved again,

And bathed in earthly bliss.

“But I have loved ane freakish Fay

Of frowardness and sin,

With heavenly beauty on the face,

And heart of stone within!”

PART II

But word’s gone East, and word’s gone West,

’Mong high and low degree,

While it went to the King upon the throne,