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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/26805-0.txt b/26805-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..935dc11 --- /dev/null +++ b/26805-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,991 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Little Engel, by George Borrow, Edited by +Thomas J. Wise + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Little Engel + a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 7, 2008 [eBook #26805] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE ENGEL*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + LITTLE ENGEL + A BALLAD + WITH A SERIES OF + EPIGRAMS FROM THE PERSIAN + + + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1913 + + + + +LITTLE ENGEL. + + +It was the little Engel, he + So handsome was and gay; +To Upland rode he on a tide + And bore a maid away. + +In ill hour he to Upland rode + And made a maid his prize; +The first night they together lay + Was down by Vesteryse. + +It was the little Engel he + Awoke at black midnight, +And straight begins his dream to state + In terror and affright. + +“Methought the wolf-whelp and his dam, + The laidly she-wolf gray, +Tore out my heart, and twixt their teeth + Did hold it as I lay.” + +“That thou dream’st little Engel thus + Can cause slight wonderment, +When me thou’st ta’en by might and main + Nor asked my friends’ consent.” + +In came Solwey Johnsen then + And stood before the table; +He was I ween, a clever lad, + And well to speak was able. + +“Hear thou, my lord, Little Engel, + Rise up and straight begone; +For here Sir Godey Loumand comes + By four ways to the town.” + +“I fear not four, Solwey Johnsen, + Nor five fear I, nor ten! +I fear not Godey Sir Loumand, though + He come with thirty men.” + +“O there are more than four, Sir, + Or five, Sir, or than ten; +Here cometh Godey Sir Loumand with + A hundred armed men.” + +It was the little Engel, he + Took Malfred in his arm: +“Now, dearest heart, some counsel give + May free us from this harm.” + +It was the little Engel, her + Upon the white cheek kiss’d: +“Now do thou hear, my bosom’s dear, + With counsel us assist.” + +“The best advice that I can give + I’ll give thee in this case; +To Mary’s Church we will retire, + They’ll ne’er destroy that place. + +“We’ll gold and silver take, and on + The scale we’ll pile them high; +To-morrow from the Churchmen we + The holy place will buy. + +“Around you call your merry men all + To whom you’ve given bread; +For refuge we to the Kirk will flee + Since we are thus bestead. + +“Do you take all your merry men who + Your coursers’ backs have prest; +We’ll hie us to our Lady’s church, + And set our hearts at rest. + +“That’s the best counsel, love, I know, + A simple woman I; +In Mary’s house we’ll lock ourselves, + And there our foes defy.” + +It was the little Engel, + Into the church he went: +Sir Loumand to beleaguer him + A hundred men has sent. + +Before the kirk his men they lay + Till full five months were past; +It was Godey Sir Loumand + So wrathful grew at last. + +Then spake the mother of little Malfred, + With hate ’gainst her was fill’d: +“The Kirk of Maria burn with fire, + And it with gold rebuild.” + +The fire began to burn, to burn, + The sparkles in they flew; +At that adread was little Malfred, + And ashy pale she grew. + +It was so hot in the Kirk yard when + Abroad the blazes sped; +But in the Kirk still hotter when + In poured the melted lead. + +It was the little Malfred, + So frantic was her mood: +“O let us quick the horses stick, + And cool us with their blood.” + +Then little Engel answer made, + As on the floor he stood: +“But coolness small shall we derive + From our good coursers’ blood.” + +Answered the groom who loved the steeds + As dearly as his breath: +“Ye’d better little Malfred stick, + She well deserveth death.” + +It was the little Engel, + His arms round Malfred twin’d: +“No death hast thou deserved from us, + And none from us shalt find. + +“My little Malfred, do thou hear + What I now say to thee; +If a son this year thou chance to bear, + That son name after me.” + +They placed her on a buckler, + They placed their spears below, +And through the window lifted her + With hearts so full of woe. + +It was the little Malfred round + The church goes staggering now, +Scorched were her scarlet robes, and scorched + The ringlets on her brow. + +It was the little Malfred fell + Upon her white bare knee: +“O may I bear a son this year, + The avenger of this to be.” + +So they the little Malfred took + And in a mantle roll’d, +And sorrowfully lifted her + Upon a courser bold. + +Outspake the little Malfred when + She reached the verdant plain: +“Burnt is our Lady’s house this day, + And burnt so bold a swain. + +“Burnt is our Lady’s house, and burnt + Therein so brave a swain; +His equal till the day of doom + We ne’er shall see again.” + +It happened in the autumn tide, + The autumn of that year, +That she within her secret bower, + A beauteous boy did bear. + +To the holy Kirk they carried him, + They christened him at night; +They called him little Engel, and + Concealed him whilst they might. + +They fostered him for winter one, + And so on, till he grew +The fairest knight beneath the sun + That you did ever view. + +So well he grew and throve until + Seven years had passed away: +“Thy uncle slew thy sire, my boy, + For the first time, that I say.” + +Still with his mother he remained + Till five more years were sped: +“Thy uncle slew thy father, boy,” + He heard most often said. + +“Now do thou hear, my mother dear, + Who sittest clad in pall; +Up under Oe I’ll riding go, + And serve in the Monarch’s hall.” + +“Yes, ride thee hence to Court, and there + To win thee honor try; +Forget not who thy father slew, + For the last time I cry.” + +He served so long at court that he + His friend the Dane King made; +With heavy heart he’d sit apart + Whilst others laugh’d and play’d. + +The Danish King observed at last + He grieved at seasons all: +“Now hear, good youth, I’d know forsooth + Why thou art sorrow’s thrall. + +“Thou grievest like the little bird + The greenwood bough upon; +Thou seemest like the lonely wight + Whose friends are dead and gone.” + +“Now do thou hear, thou King of the Danes, + With grief I down am weigh’d; +My uncle slew my sire of old, + And no atonement made.” + +“If thou wilt up of the country ride, + And well avenge that deed, +As many of my men to thee + I’ll lend, as thou shalt need. + +“If thou’lt avenge thy father’s death, + Thou shalt have fitting aid; +Three hundred of my men to thee + I’ll lend, in steel array’d.” + +It was the little Engel, he + Rides in the greenwood shade; +He marshals there his good men all, + And sets him at their head. + +In haste came in the little footboy, + And stood before the table; +He was I ween a clever lad, + And well to speak was able. + +“Now hear, Sir Godey Loumand, hear, + Arise and straight begone; +Little Engel’s coming with his troop + By four ways to the town. + +“Little Engel’s coming with his troop, + And he’ll be on us soon; +And wroth is he, as wroth can be, + His war-lance scrapes the moon.” + +“At Stevn and Ting, my boy, I’ve been, + And wherever people mingle; +But ne’er, I swear, have I been where + I’ve heard of little Engel.” + +It was Godey Sir Loumand, + He stroked the page’s cheek; +“If thou canst give any good advice, + My pretty footboy, speak.” + +“If I can give any good advice + Most certainly I will; +In your stone bower yourself immure + From the approaching ill. + +“The walls they are of marble stone, + The doors they are of lead; +’Twill wondrous be, my lord, if we + Therein are prisoners made.” + +It was the little Engel, he + Halted a while to gaze: +“O there doth lie the Kirk, where died + My sire in smoke and blaze. + +“And there doth stand the castle, where + My uncle doth reside; +The amends that he shall pay this day + The Lord in heaven decide.” + +By four ways they the bower beset, + And for admission call: +The little Engel, sprightly elf, + Was foremost of them all. + +It was Godey Sir Loumand, through + The casement out looked he: +“Now hark, ye knaves, bid your captain tell + Why ye bawl so furiously?” + +Then answered little Engel straight + Beneath his mantle ruddy: +“Engel he’s stiled, your sister’s child, + And I am he, Sir Godey.” + +Then answered Godey Sir Loumand, he + Was surely wroth thereat: +“Ride hence, and boast not of thy birth, + Thou art a bastard brat.” + +“And though a bastard brat I be, + My fortune’s not the worse; +Enough I hold of silver and gold, + And ride on a gallant horse. + +“And if a bastard brat I be, + Thou mad’st me that I trow; +But still I’ve towers, and pleasant bowers, + And of green woods enow. + +“My sire thou slew’st, and no amends + To me didst ever make; +Now scoff thou hast upon me cast, + For which thy life I’ll take. + +“Bring gold, my merry men, and that + Before the threshold lay; +We’ll burn the bower this very hour, + We well for it can pay.” + +’Twas hot within the foreroom when + The fire began to roar; +But hotter in the stone bower, when + The lead began to pour. + +It was the little Engel, he + His courser never turned +To ride away from the castelaye + Before the bower was burned. + +Away at last he rode, and waved + His hand in exultation, +Upon espying his uncle lying + Amidst the conflagration. + +Said little Engel, when he saw + His uncle’s body shrink: +“Now thou hast quaffed the self same draught + Thou mad’st my father drink.” + +It was the little Engel, rode + Home to his mother’s hall; +Before it stood his mother good, + So fair arrayed in pall. + +“Here dost thou stand, my mother dear, + Arrayed in robes of pall; +I’ve ridden up the land, and well + Avenged my father’s fall.” + +It was the fair Dame Malfred, wrung + Her hands and wept amain: +“I’d but one care before to bear, + And now, alas, have twain!” + +“Dear mother, thou wouldst have it so, + Now thee in tears I find, +When duteously thy will I’ve done: + How strange is woman’s mind!” + +He turned his steed and rode away, + His face with anger red; +With dishevelled hair, the Dame stood there, + Such woeful tears she shed. + +The little Engel hied him to + The King his master’s court; +Abroad the Dane King stood, and hailed + The youth in kindest sort. + +Into the hall Sir Engel then + With the good monarch went: +“My choicest thanks, thou noble King, + For thy brave warriors lent. + +“Now I’ve avenged my father’s death, + Burnt is Sir Godey’s bower; +And he therein has found a tomb, + Who slew my sire of yore.” + + + + +AN ELEGY. + + +Where shall I rest my hapless head, + Heavy with grief? how plenteously +Must I the briny torrents shed— + _Alack and woe is me_! + +Our chief is gone, at last, at last, + The safeguard of our nation he; +The glory of our age is past— + _Alack and woe is me_! + +Unto the swords, O father dear, + Of foemen thirsting horribly +For blood, why leave thy children here? + _Alack and woe is me_! + +Of justice is the fountain dried, + And mute the law’s high symphony; +Fallen is Europa’s brightest pride— + _Alack and woe is me_. + +There is a change of times and things + That passeth on eternally. +Decreed by Him, the King of Kings— + _’Tis right_—_but woe is me_! + +Now is the earth with violets gay, + And flowers manifold to see; +Now frozen ’neath the winter’s sway— + _How brief the roses be_! + +Now shews the sun his head of gold + With a superior brilliancy; +Now hides as were he dead and cold— + _Alack and woe is me_. + +O father! I will lave thy tomb + With tear-drops well becoming me; +Thy tomb with flowery herbs perfume— + _How brief the roses be_! + + + + +EPIGRAMS. +_From the Persian_. + + +1. + + +Hear what once the pigmy clever + To the stupid giant said: +Things are not of highest value + Which do highest rear their head; +The sluggish horse is nothing better + Than the donkey lowest bred. + + + +2. + + +The man who of his words is sparing + His strength and weakness hidden keeps; +Think not every thicket empty, + Perchance in one a tiger sleeps. + + + +3. + + +If thou would’st ruin ’scape, and blackest woe, + Unto these words, these precious words attend: +Never be heedless of a mortal foe, + Nor choose a proud and envious man for friend. + + + +4. + + +Sit down with your friends in delightful repose + When war and contention you see ’midst your foes; +But when to an end their contentions they bring, + Then, then seize the bow, and get ready the sling. + + + +5. + + +The hungry hound upon the bone will pounce + He prowling finds, and not mistrustful pass; +He asks not whom it did belong to once, + The prophet’s camel or the sinner’s ass. + + + +6. + + +Great Aaroun is dead, and is nothing, the man + Who left forty castles replete with gold store; +But living though dead is the great Nourshwan, + In the good name he left he has death triumphed o’er. + + + +7. + + +Though God provides our daily bread, + Yet all must seek that bread I ween; +Though all must die, there is no need + To rush the dragon’s jaws between. + + + +8. +THE KING AND HIS FOLLOWERS. + + +If in the boor’s garden the King eats a pear, +His servants rapacious the tree will uptear; +For every five eggs he gives bounteously, more +Than five hundred fowls will his armies devour. + + + +9. +THE DEVOUT MAN AND THE TYRANT. + + +If the half of a loaf the devout man receives, +The half of that half to the wretched he gives; +But no sooner a tyrant one kingdom has ta’en, +Than the wish of his heart is another to gain. + + + +10. +THE CAT AND THE BEGGAR. + + +If a cat could the power of flying enjoy, +She all the world’s sparrows would quickly destroy; +If power in the hands of a beggar you place, +No mercy he’ll show to the beggarly race. + + + +11. +THE KING AND TAYLOR. + + +The taylor who travels in far foreign lands, +Can always get bread by the work of his hands; +But the King who from throne and from country has fled, +Must oft without supper go sighing to bed. + + + +12. +GOLD COIN AND STAMPED LEATHER. + + +Of the children of wisdom how like is the face +To pure gold that’s accepted in every place; +But the ignorant great are much like leather cash, +At home which though current, abroad is but trash. + + + +13. + + +So much like a friend with your foe ever deal, +That you never need dread the least scratch from his steel; +But ne’er with your friend deal so much like a foe, +That you ever must dread from his faulchion a blow. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. 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Wise + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Little Engel + a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 7, 2008 [eBook #26805] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE ENGEL*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>LITTLE ENGEL<br /> +<span class="smcap">a ballad</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">with a series of</span><br /> +EPIGRAMS FROM THE PERSIAN</h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">1913</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>LITTLE ENGEL.</h2> +<p>It was the little Engel, he<br /> + So handsome was and gay;<br /> +To Upland rode he on a tide<br /> + And bore a maid away.</p> +<p>In ill hour he to Upland rode<br /> + And made a maid his prize;<br /> +The first night they together lay<br /> + Was down by Vesteryse.</p> +<p>It was the little Engel he<br /> + Awoke at black midnight,<br /> +And straight begins his dream to state<br /> + In terror and affright.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>“Methought the wolf-whelp and his dam,<br /> + The laidly she-wolf gray,<br /> +Tore out my heart, and twixt their teeth<br /> + Did hold it as I lay.”</p> +<p>“That thou dream’st little Engel thus<br /> + Can cause slight wonderment,<br /> +When me thou’st ta’en by might and main<br /> + Nor asked my friends’ consent.”</p> +<p>In came Solwey Johnsen then<br /> + And stood before the table;<br /> +He was I ween, a clever lad,<br /> + And well to speak was able.</p> +<p>“Hear thou, my lord, Little Engel,<br /> + Rise up and straight begone;<br /> +For here Sir Godey Loumand comes<br /> + By four ways to the town.”</p> +<p>“I fear not four, Solwey Johnsen,<br /> + Nor five fear I, nor ten!<br /> +I fear not Godey Sir Loumand, though<br /> + He come with thirty men.”</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>“O there are more than four, Sir,<br /> + Or five, Sir, or than ten;<br /> +Here cometh Godey Sir Loumand with<br /> + A hundred armed men.”</p> +<p>It was the little Engel, he<br /> + Took Malfred in his arm:<br /> +“Now, dearest heart, some counsel give<br /> + May free us from this harm.”</p> +<p>It was the little Engel, her<br /> + Upon the white cheek kiss’d:<br /> +“Now do thou hear, my bosom’s dear,<br /> + With counsel us assist.”</p> +<p>“The best advice that I can give<br /> + I’ll give thee in this case;<br /> +To Mary’s Church we will retire,<br /> + They’ll ne’er destroy that place.</p> +<p>“We’ll gold and silver take, and on<br /> + The scale we’ll pile them high;<br /> +To-morrow from the Churchmen we<br /> + The holy place will buy.</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>“Around you call your merry men all<br /> + To whom you’ve given bread;<br /> +For refuge we to the Kirk will flee<br /> + Since we are thus bestead.</p> +<p>“Do you take all your merry men who<br /> + Your coursers’ backs have prest;<br /> +We’ll hie us to our Lady’s church,<br /> + And set our hearts at rest.</p> +<p>“That’s the best counsel, love, I know,<br /> + A simple woman I;<br /> +In Mary’s house we’ll lock ourselves,<br /> + And there our foes defy.”</p> +<p>It was the little Engel,<br /> + Into the church he went:<br /> +Sir Loumand to beleaguer him<br /> + A hundred men has sent.</p> +<p>Before the kirk his men they lay<br /> + Till full five months were past;<br /> +It was Godey Sir Loumand<br /> + So wrathful grew at last.</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>Then spake the mother of little Malfred,<br /> + With hate ’gainst her was fill’d:<br /> +“The Kirk of Maria burn with fire,<br /> + And it with gold rebuild.”</p> +<p>The fire began to burn, to burn,<br /> + The sparkles in they flew;<br /> +At that adread was little Malfred,<br /> + And ashy pale she grew.</p> +<p>It was so hot in the Kirk yard when<br /> + Abroad the blazes sped;<br /> +But in the Kirk still hotter when<br /> + In poured the melted lead.</p> +<p>It was the little Malfred,<br /> + So frantic was her mood:<br /> +“O let us quick the horses stick,<br /> + And cool us with their blood.”</p> +<p>Then little Engel answer made,<br /> + As on the floor he stood:<br /> +“But coolness small shall we derive<br /> + From our good coursers’ blood.”</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>Answered the groom who loved the steeds<br /> + As dearly as his breath:<br /> +“Ye’d better little Malfred stick,<br /> + She well deserveth death.”</p> +<p>It was the little Engel,<br /> + His arms round Malfred twin’d:<br /> +“No death hast thou deserved from us,<br /> + And none from us shalt find.</p> +<p>“My little Malfred, do thou hear<br /> + What I now say to thee;<br /> +If a son this year thou chance to bear,<br /> + That son name after me.”</p> +<p>They placed her on a buckler,<br /> + They placed their spears below,<br /> +And through the window lifted her<br /> + With hearts so full of woe.</p> +<p>It was the little Malfred round<br /> + The church goes staggering now,<br /> +Scorched were her scarlet robes, and scorched<br /> + The ringlets on her brow.</p> +<p><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>It was the little Malfred fell<br /> + Upon her white bare knee:<br /> +“O may I bear a son this year,<br /> + The avenger of this to be.”</p> +<p>So they the little Malfred took<br /> + And in a mantle roll’d,<br /> +And sorrowfully lifted her<br /> + Upon a courser bold.</p> +<p>Outspake the little Malfred when<br /> + She reached the verdant plain:<br /> +“Burnt is our Lady’s house this day,<br /> + And burnt so bold a swain.</p> +<p>“Burnt is our Lady’s house, and burnt<br /> + Therein so brave a swain;<br /> +His equal till the day of doom<br /> + We ne’er shall see again.”</p> +<p>It happened in the autumn tide,<br /> + The autumn of that year,<br /> +That she within her secret bower,<br /> + A beauteous boy did bear.</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>To the holy Kirk they carried him,<br /> + They christened him at night;<br /> +They called him little Engel, and<br /> + Concealed him whilst they might.</p> +<p>They fostered him for winter one,<br /> + And so on, till he grew<br /> +The fairest knight beneath the sun<br /> + That you did ever view.</p> +<p>So well he grew and throve until<br /> + Seven years had passed away:<br /> +“Thy uncle slew thy sire, my boy,<br /> + For the first time, that I say.”</p> +<p>Still with his mother he remained<br /> + Till five more years were sped:<br /> +“Thy uncle slew thy father, boy,”<br /> + He heard most often said.</p> +<p>“Now do thou hear, my mother dear,<br /> + Who sittest clad in pall;<br /> +Up under Oe I’ll riding go,<br /> + And serve in the Monarch’s hall.”</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>“Yes, ride thee hence to Court, and there<br /> + To win thee honor try;<br /> +Forget not who thy father slew,<br /> + For the last time I cry.”</p> +<p>He served so long at court that he<br /> + His friend the Dane King made;<br /> +With heavy heart he’d sit apart<br /> + Whilst others laugh’d and play’d.</p> +<p>The Danish King observed at last<br /> + He grieved at seasons all:<br /> +“Now hear, good youth, I’d know forsooth<br /> + Why thou art sorrow’s thrall.</p> +<p>“Thou grievest like the little bird<br /> + The greenwood bough upon;<br /> +Thou seemest like the lonely wight<br /> + Whose friends are dead and gone.”</p> +<p>“Now do thou hear, thou King of the Danes,<br /> + With grief I down am weigh’d;<br /> +My uncle slew my sire of old,<br /> + And no atonement made.”</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>“If thou wilt up of the country ride,<br /> + And well avenge that deed,<br /> +As many of my men to thee<br /> + I’ll lend, as thou shalt need.</p> +<p>“If thou’lt avenge thy father’s death,<br /> + Thou shalt have fitting aid;<br /> +Three hundred of my men to thee<br /> + I’ll lend, in steel array’d.”</p> +<p>It was the little Engel, he<br /> + Rides in the greenwood shade;<br /> +He marshals there his good men all,<br /> + And sets him at their head.</p> +<p>In haste came in the little footboy,<br /> + And stood before the table;<br /> +He was I ween a clever lad,<br /> + And well to speak was able.</p> +<p>“Now hear, Sir Godey Loumand, hear,<br /> + Arise and straight begone;<br /> +Little Engel’s coming with his troop<br /> + By four ways to the town.</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>“Little Engel’s coming with his troop,<br /> + And he’ll be on us soon;<br /> +And wroth is he, as wroth can be,<br /> + His war-lance scrapes the moon.”</p> +<p>“At Stevn and Ting, my boy, I’ve been,<br /> + And wherever people mingle;<br /> +But ne’er, I swear, have I been where<br /> + I’ve heard of little Engel.”</p> +<p>It was Godey Sir Loumand,<br /> + He stroked the page’s cheek;<br /> +“If thou canst give any good advice,<br /> + My pretty footboy, speak.”</p> +<p>“If I can give any good advice<br /> + Most certainly I will;<br /> +In your stone bower yourself immure<br /> + From the approaching ill.</p> +<p>“The walls they are of marble stone,<br /> + The doors they are of lead;<br /> +’Twill wondrous be, my lord, if we<br /> + Therein are prisoners made.”</p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>It was the little Engel, he<br /> + Halted a while to gaze:<br /> +“O there doth lie the Kirk, where died<br /> + My sire in smoke and blaze.</p> +<p>“And there doth stand the castle, where<br /> + My uncle doth reside;<br /> +The amends that he shall pay this day<br /> + The Lord in heaven decide.”</p> +<p>By four ways they the bower beset,<br /> + And for admission call:<br /> +The little Engel, sprightly elf,<br /> + Was foremost of them all.</p> +<p>It was Godey Sir Loumand, through<br /> + The casement out looked he:<br /> +“Now hark, ye knaves, bid your captain tell<br /> + Why ye bawl so furiously?”</p> +<p>Then answered little Engel straight<br /> + Beneath his mantle ruddy:<br /> +“Engel he’s stiled, your sister’s child,<br /> + And I am he, Sir Godey.”</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>Then answered Godey Sir Loumand, he<br /> + Was surely wroth thereat:<br /> +“Ride hence, and boast not of thy birth,<br /> + Thou art a bastard brat.”</p> +<p>“And though a bastard brat I be,<br /> + My fortune’s not the worse;<br /> +Enough I hold of silver and gold,<br /> + And ride on a gallant horse.</p> +<p>“And if a bastard brat I be,<br /> + Thou mad’st me that I trow;<br /> +But still I’ve towers, and pleasant bowers,<br /> + And of green woods enow.</p> +<p>“My sire thou slew’st, and no amends<br /> + To me didst ever make;<br /> +Now scoff thou hast upon me cast,<br /> + For which thy life I’ll take.</p> +<p>“Bring gold, my merry men, and that<br /> + Before the threshold lay;<br /> +We’ll burn the bower this very hour,<br /> + We well for it can pay.”</p> +<p><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>’Twas hot within the foreroom when<br /> + The fire began to roar;<br /> +But hotter in the stone bower, when<br /> + The lead began to pour.</p> +<p>It was the little Engel, he<br /> + His courser never turned<br /> +To ride away from the castelaye<br /> + Before the bower was burned.</p> +<p>Away at last he rode, and waved<br /> + His hand in exultation,<br /> +Upon espying his uncle lying<br /> + Amidst the conflagration.</p> +<p>Said little Engel, when he saw<br /> + His uncle’s body shrink:<br /> +“Now thou hast quaffed the self same draught<br /> + Thou mad’st my father drink.”</p> +<p>It was the little Engel, rode<br /> + Home to his mother’s hall;<br /> +Before it stood his mother good,<br /> + So fair arrayed in pall.</p> +<p><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>“Here dost thou stand, my mother dear,<br /> + Arrayed in robes of pall;<br /> +I’ve ridden up the land, and well<br /> + Avenged my father’s fall.”</p> +<p>It was the fair Dame Malfred, wrung<br /> + Her hands and wept amain:<br /> +“I’d but one care before to bear,<br /> + And now, alas, have twain!”</p> +<p>“Dear mother, thou wouldst have it so,<br /> + Now thee in tears I find,<br /> +When duteously thy will I’ve done:<br /> + How strange is woman’s mind!”</p> +<p>He turned his steed and rode away,<br /> + His face with anger red;<br /> +With dishevelled hair, the Dame stood there,<br /> + Such woeful tears she shed.</p> +<p>The little Engel hied him to<br /> + The King his master’s court;<br /> +Abroad the Dane King stood, and hailed<br /> + The youth in kindest sort.</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>Into the hall Sir Engel then<br /> + With the good monarch went:<br /> +“My choicest thanks, thou noble King,<br /> + For thy brave warriors lent.</p> +<p>“Now I’ve avenged my father’s death,<br /> + Burnt is Sir Godey’s bower;<br /> +And he therein has found a tomb,<br /> + Who slew my sire of yore.”</p> +<h2><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>AN ELEGY.</h2> +<p>Where shall I rest my hapless head,<br /> + Heavy with grief? how plenteously<br /> +Must I the briny torrents shed—<br /> + <i>Alack and woe is me</i>!</p> +<p>Our chief is gone, at last, at last,<br /> + The safeguard of our nation he;<br /> +The glory of our age is past—<br /> + <i>Alack and woe is me</i>!</p> +<p>Unto the swords, O father dear,<br /> + Of foemen thirsting horribly<br /> +For blood, why leave thy children here?<br /> + <i>Alack and woe is me</i>!</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>Of justice is the fountain dried,<br /> + And mute the law’s high symphony;<br /> +Fallen is Europa’s brightest pride—<br /> + <i>Alack and woe is me</i>.</p> +<p>There is a change of times and things<br /> + That passeth on eternally.<br /> +Decreed by Him, the King of Kings—<br /> + <i>’Tis right</i>—<i>but woe is +me</i>!</p> +<p>Now is the earth with violets gay,<br /> + And flowers manifold to see;<br /> +Now frozen ’neath the winter’s sway—<br /> + <i>How brief the roses be</i>!</p> +<p>Now shews the sun his head of gold<br /> + With a superior brilliancy;<br /> +Now hides as were he dead and cold—<br /> + <i>Alack and woe is me</i>.</p> +<p>O father! I will lave thy tomb<br /> + With tear-drops well becoming me;<br /> +Thy tomb with flowery herbs perfume—<br /> + <i>How brief the roses be</i>!</p> +<h2><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>EPIGRAMS.<br /> +<i>From the Persian</i>.</h2> +<h3>1.</h3> +<p>Hear what once the pigmy clever<br /> + To the stupid giant said:<br /> +Things are not of highest value<br /> + Which do highest rear their head;<br /> +The sluggish horse is nothing better<br /> + Than the donkey lowest bred.</p> +<h3>2.</h3> +<p>The man who of his words is sparing<br /> + His strength and weakness hidden keeps;<br /> +Think not every thicket empty,<br /> + Perchance in one a tiger sleeps.</p> +<h3><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>3.</h3> +<p>If thou would’st ruin ’scape, and blackest woe,<br +/> + Unto these words, these precious words attend:<br /> +Never be heedless of a mortal foe,<br /> + Nor choose a proud and envious man for friend.</p> +<h3>4.</h3> +<p>Sit down with your friends in delightful repose<br /> + When war and contention you see ’midst your +foes;<br /> +But when to an end their contentions they bring,<br /> + Then, then seize the bow, and get ready the +sling.</p> +<h3>5.</h3> +<p>The hungry hound upon the bone will pounce<br /> + He prowling finds, and not mistrustful pass;<br /> +He asks not whom it did belong to once,<br /> + The prophet’s camel or the sinner’s +ass.</p> +<h3><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>6.</h3> +<p>Great Aaroun is dead, and is nothing, the man<br /> + Who left forty castles replete with gold store;<br +/> +But living though dead is the great Nourshwan,<br /> + In the good name he left he has death triumphed +o’er.</p> +<h3>7.</h3> +<p>Though God provides our daily bread,<br /> + Yet all must seek that bread I ween;<br /> +Though all must die, there is no need<br /> + To rush the dragon’s jaws between.</p> +<h3>8.<br /> +THE KING AND HIS FOLLOWERS.</h3> +<p>If in the boor’s garden the King eats a pear,<br /> +His servants rapacious the tree will uptear;<br /> +For every five eggs he gives bounteously, more<br /> +Than five hundred fowls will his armies devour.</p> +<h3><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>9.<br /> +THE DEVOUT MAN AND THE TYRANT.</h3> +<p>If the half of a loaf the devout man receives,<br /> +The half of that half to the wretched he gives;<br /> +But no sooner a tyrant one kingdom has ta’en,<br /> +Than the wish of his heart is another to gain.</p> +<h3>10.<br /> +THE CAT AND THE BEGGAR.</h3> +<p>If a cat could the power of flying enjoy,<br /> +She all the world’s sparrows would quickly destroy;<br /> +If power in the hands of a beggar you place,<br /> +No mercy he’ll show to the beggarly race.</p> +<h3>11.<br /> +THE KING AND TAYLOR.</h3> +<p>The taylor who travels in far foreign lands,<br /> +Can always get bread by the work of his hands;<br /> +But the King who from throne and from country has fled,<br /> +Must oft without supper go sighing to bed.</p> +<h3><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>12.<br /> +GOLD COIN AND STAMPED LEATHER.</h3> +<p>Of the children of wisdom how like is the face<br /> +To pure gold that’s accepted in every place;<br /> +But the ignorant great are much like leather cash,<br /> +At home which though current, abroad is but trash.</p> +<h3>13.</h3> +<p>So much like a friend with your foe ever deal,<br /> +That you never need dread the least scratch from his steel;<br /> +But ne’er with your friend deal so much like a foe,<br /> +That you ever must dread from his faulchion a blow.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 28--><a +name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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