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

by Unknown

Nor the worst that he could do.

“O Lady, wert thou in thy saddle set,

And once without this wall,

I would not care for thy cruel father,

Nor the worst that might befall.”

Fair Emmeline sighed, Fair Emmeline wept,

And aye her heart was woe:

At length he seized her lily-white hand,

And down the ladder he drew.