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Translator: George Borrow
Editor: Thomas J. Wise
THE NIGHTINGALE THE VALKYRIE AND RAVEN AND OTHER BALLADS
BY GEORGE BORROW
LONDON: PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
THE NIGHTINGALE, OR THE TRANSFORMED DAMSEL
I know where stands a Castellaye, Its turrets are so fairly gilt; With silver are its gates inlaid, Its walls of marble stone are built.
Within it stands a linden tree, With lovely leaves its boughs are hung, Therein doth dwell a nightingale, And sweetly moves that bird its tongue.
A gallant knight came riding by, He heard its dulcet ditty ring; And sorely, sorely, wondered he At midnight hour that it should sing.
"And hear, thou little Nightingale, If thou to me wilt sing a lay, Thy feathers I'll with gold bedeck, Thy neck with costly pearls array."
"With golden feathers others lure, Such gifts for me have value slight; I am a strange and lonely bird, But little known to mortal wight."
"And thou, a strange wild bird thou be, Whom other mortals little know; Yet hunger pinches thee, and cold, When falls the cruel winter snow."
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