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Title: The Verner Raven; The Count of Vendel's Daughter
and other Ballads

Author: Anonymous

Editor: Thomas Wise

Release Date: May 29, 2009 [eBook #28825]

Language: English

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

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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.

THE VERNER RAVEN
THE COUNT OF VENDEL'S
DAUGHTER
AND OTHER BALLADS

BY
GEORGE BORROW

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
1913

_Copyright in the United States of America_
_by Houghton Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_.

THE VERNER RAVEN

The Raven he flies in the evening tide,
He in day dares not intrude;
Whoever is born to have evil luck
In vain may seek for good.

Lustily flies the Verner Raven,
High o'er the wall he's flown,
For he was aware that Irmindlin fair
Sate in her bower alone.

He southward flew, and he northward flew,
He flew high up in the cloud;
And he beheld May Irmindlin
Who sorrowing sate and sew'd.

"Now hear me, little Irmindlin,
Why weep in this piteous way?
For father or mother, or is it for brother,
That adown thy cheek tears stray?"

It was Damsel Irmindlin,
Swift out of the window looked she:
"O who is he that will comfort me,
And list to my misery?

"Hear thou, wild Raven, bird of Death,
Fly thou hither down to me;
And all my trouble and all my care
I'll straight relate to thee.

"My father gave me the son of a king,
We were fitted the one for the other,
But h