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    Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad
    Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad
    Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad
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    Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad

    By George Henry Borrow and Thomas James Wise

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad - George Henry Borrow

      The Project Gutenberg eBook of Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg, Edited by

      Thomas J. Wise, Translated by George Borrow

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg

      a ballad

      Editor: Thomas J. Wise

      Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27406]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AXEL THORDSON AND FAIR VALBORG***

      Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.  Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.

      AXEL THORDSON

      AND FAIR VALBORG

      a ballad

      by

      GEORGE BORROW

      London:

      printed for private circulation

      1913

      Copyright in the United States of America

      by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

      AXEL THORDSON AND FAIR VALBORG.

      At the wide board at tables play,

         With pleasure and with glee abounding

      The ladies twain in fair array,

         The game they play is most astounding.

      How fly about the dies so small,

         Such sudden turnings are they making;

      And so does Fortune’s wheel withal,

         We scarcely know the route ’tis taking.

      Dame Julli grand, and Malfred Queen,

         At tables were their time employing;

      Not distant on the floor was seen

         A child with pear and apple toying.

      Upon the floor the child it walked,

         It played with apples and with flowers;

      Then in Sir Axel Thordson stalked,

         Was bound for Rome’s imperial towers.

      He greets the Dames repeatedly,

         At courtesy he had no master;

      He loved the child in secrecy,

         But fate had doomed them much disaster.

      His eyeballs brimming full of tears

         Full tenderly her cheek he patted:

      "O would thou wast of fitting years,

         With Axel Thordson to be mated!"

      Answered his youngest sister straight,

         Thus answered she her gallant brother:

      "Though she this night to woman’s state

         Had won, ye might not wed each other."

      Answered the Damsel’s mother high,

         And she the simple truth has stated:

      "A worthy pair I don’t deny,

         But, oh! ye are too near related."

      A gold ring off his arm he drew,

         To play with that he fondly bade her;

      To years of reason when she grew

         To palen and to pine it made her.

      "That I’ve betrothed thee, little bride,

         In mind I beg that thou wilt carry;

      And now from

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