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Excerpt from Selection of Ballads: Translated Chiefly From German Authors Columbus. "Fernando, why so serious?" the great Columbus said, "Bring'st thou bad news that thus thou com'st, with bent and hanging head "My noble chief thou judgest right, the crew's in mutiny, "In headlong wrath they seek thy life, and come to bid thee die;" While thus he spoke, a crowd was heard, nearing the cabin door, The rabble rout came rushing aft, with a mighty tempest's roar. "Where now your hopes and promises, you perjured man?" they cried "Too long we've braved the stormy winds and ploughed the briny tide, "Thus far like fools we've followed thee, and now we pine for food, "Yet ere we die, we'll have revenge. Traitor, we'll have thy blood!" The ruffians said, but all unmoved, the hero gazed around, And when he spoke, the roar was hushed, and silence reigned profound. "Speak not of broken trust," he said, "the land is there, 'tis there, "I see it with the eye of faith, if not in nether air, "Yet hear me now, one compact more, 'tis but a little space, "The night is settling on the deep, till morn I ask your grace." His words, his godlike mien assuaged, the fury of the crew, With downcast looks, and murmurs low, they yielded and withdrew, Then sank Columbus on his knees and upward winged a prayer: "Oh! hear me Lord Almighty hear, the land I know is there, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from German Ballads: Translated and Edited Few remarks are more often quoted than Fletcher of Saltoun's, Let me make the ballads of a country, and I care not who makes its laws. But the laws of Fletcher's own country at one time took an unfair advantage over the ballads. For in Calvinistic Scotland of the sixteenth century, these metrical romances were considered as altogether profane and ungodly, and no marriage could be celebrated unless the contracting parties deposited 10 as caution-money that they would have no minstrels at the wedding. Under the Regent Morton, printing a ballad was punishable with death, and in I 579 two luckless poets were actually hanged for the high crime and misdemeanour of making ballads. What Morton and Knox would have done with the still more criminal translator of ballads it is impossible to say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."