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

by Unknown

While tender care I took

To shield my eldest from the cold,

And wrap him in my cloak,

“A prowling bear burst from the wood,

And seized my younger son;

Affection lent my weakness wings

And after them I run.

“But all forewearied, weak and spent,

I quickly swooned away;

And there beneath the greenwood shade