The Expedition to Birting's Land, and Other Ballads

by Unknown

Transcribed from the 1914 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE EXPEDITION TO
BIRTING’S LAND
and other ballads

by
GEORGE BORROW

London:
printed for private circulation

1914

Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

THE EXPEDITION TO BIRTING’S LAND

The King he o’er the castle rules,
He rules o’er all the land;
O’er many a hardy hero too,
With naked sword in hand.

Let the courtier govern his steed,
The boor his thatchèd cot,
But Denmark’s King o’er castles rules,
For nobler is his lot.