Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE SONG OF DEIRDRA king byrge and his brothers and other ballads

king byrge and his brothers

and

other ballads

by GEORGE BORROW

by

London: printed for private circulation

London

printed for private circulation

1913

p. 4Copyright in the United States of America by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

p. 4

p. 5THE SONG OF DEIRDRA

p. 5

Farewell, grey Albyn, much loved land, I ne’er shall see thy hills again; Upon those hills I oft would stand And view the chase sweep o’er the plain.

’Twas pleasant from their tops I ween To see the stag that bounding ran; And all the rout of hunters keen, The sons of Usna in the van.

The chiefs of Albyn feasted high, Amidst them Usna’s children shone; And Nasa kissed in secrecy The daughter fair of high Dundron.

p. 6To her a milk-white doe he sent, With little fawn that frisked and played And once to visit her he went, As home from Inverness 

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