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Little Engel a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian - George Henry Borrow
Little Engel, by George Borrow
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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
***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
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