THE ENCHANTED TALE OF BANBURY CROSS.

 

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t # A pretty sight it was, forsooth,
4% Silver, bells are ringing,
For dame ti children, maid and youth,

 

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The princess laughed outwith delight,

And @lapped her hands, so lilyAvhite —_
The darling princess, sweet was she

As any flowering hawthornAree.

She stood béside her sire; the king,

And heard pees music ring,

And watched the old wife o’er the plain
Sweep round, ajd‘round, and round again
Till, suddenly sHe slacked her pace,

And stopped before her wondering face;

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And snatched her up béfore they&ghew,
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And with her from their Vision flew,
Silver bells are ringing. ol
The nobles to ‘their’ saddlés spring,
Aiid follow headed by the kifig !
They gallop over meadows green;
‘They Jéap the bars that lie between;
Thr? thé cool woodland ride they now,
*’Neath xustling branches, bending low;
Thé silver music draws them on,
But, when they reach it, it is gone —
The white dew falls, the sun is set,
“~And.no trace of the princess yet.