Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS EDITED WITH NOTES, STUDY HELPS, AND READING LISTS BY MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A. _Formerly Instructor in English in the University of Wisconsin_ _Editor of Prose Literature for Secondary Schools_ BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
And tauld the King o' me,
To send us out at this time o' the year
To sail upon the sea?
"Be it wind or weet, be it hail or sleet,
Our ship maun sail the faem,
The King's daughter to Noroway,
'Tis we maun tak' her hame."
They hoisted their sails on Monday morn,
Wi' a' the speed they may;
And they hae landed in Noroway
Upon the Wodensday.
They hadna been a week, a week,
In Noroway but twae,
When that the lords o' Noroway
Began aloud to say--
"Ye Scotsmen spend a' our King's gowd,
And a' our Queenis fee."
"Ye lie, ye lie, ye liars loud,
Sae loud's I hear ye lie!
"For I brouct as mickle white monie,
As gane my men and me,
MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS EDITED WITH NOTES, STUDY HELPS, AND READING LISTS BY MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A. _Formerly Instructor in English in the University of Wisconsin_ _Editor of Prose Literature for Secondary Schools_ BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED