Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Nature in the Old English and Scottish Ballads
An old English or Scottish ballad! What fairy land of romance the phrase calls up before the mind's eye! Ladies with golden hair ride on milk White steeds through the greenwood, accompanied by knights with gold and silver trappings. Trees rustle in the so?t wind and flowers bloom.on all sides, While the knight tells of his love and bears his fair maid triumphantly away from her father's hall or castle to his home under the greenwood tree or to some distant castle of his own. Such is the picture which presents itself to our thoughts. Let us see how near our imagination comes to the reality.
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