 Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth enough, With a green sod under my...  Notes and Queries - Page 3201887Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 380 pages
...taken up, There shall my grave digg'd be, Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth enough,... | |
 | Robin Hood - 1820 - 338 pages
...taken op, There shall my grave digg'd be. Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which ie most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth enough,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1826 - 128 pages
...taken up, There shall my grave digged be. Lay me a green sod under my head. And another at my feet, And lay my bent bow by my side. Which was my music sweet; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth enough,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Hogg - Europe - 1827 - 372 pages
...heart, that has long ceased to beat : — " Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green , Which is most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth enough.... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - Robin Hood (Legendary character) - 1832 - 640 pages
...taken up, There shall my grave digg'd be. Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet; N And make my grave of gravel and green. Which is most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...hand, A broad arrow I'll let flee, And where this shaft doth chance to fall There shall my grave digg'd be. And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music...with the sod so green, As is both right and meet. And let me have breadth and length enough By the side of yon greenwood, That men may say, when they... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 354 pages
...arrow I '11 let flee, And where this shaft doth chance to fall, There shall my grave digged be. And Iny my bent bow by my side. Which was my music sweet ; And cover my grave with sod so green, As is both right and meet'. And let me have breadth and length enough, By the side of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1847 - 762 pages
...taken up, There shall my grave digg'd be. Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. * Here some modem corruption of the... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Folklore - 1850 - 300 pages
...day, Until! the next day at noon. s * * * " Lay me a green sod under my bead, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. " Let me have length and breadth enough,... | |
 | John Mathew Gutch - Ballads, English - 1850 - 540 pages
...taken up, There shall my grave digg'd be. Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet;* And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet; And make my grave of gravel and green. Which is most right and meet Let me have length and breadth enough,... | |
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