Scott's Lady of the Lake

by Walter Scott

“And, Richard, if our lot be hard,

And lost thy native land,

Still Alice has her own Richard,

And he his Alice Brand.”

XIII.

BALLAD CONTINUED.

’Tis merry, ’tis merry, in good greenwood,

So blithe Lady Alice is singing;

On the beech’s pride, and oak’s brown side,

Lord Richard’s ax is ringing.