Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE BROTHER AVENGED
and
OTHER BALLADS
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
THE BROTHER AVENGED
I stood before my master’s board,
The skinker’s office plying;
The herald-men brought tidings then
That my brother was murdered lying.
I followed my lord unto his bed,
By his dearest down he laid him;
Then my courser out of the stall I led,
And with saddle and bit arrayed him.