Ralph Earl of Lovelace
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Lovelace, Mary Countess of) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Ralph Earl of Lovelace: A Memoir Many years ago a small company of children were wont to gather in an old house near London, where the famous Jenny Lind, then a friendly neighbour, would come and sing to them. She chose for them old ballads and folk songs, often those of our own northern border-country, and, great artist that she was, she subdued her glorious voice and made it her only care that no word of the stories that she had to tell should be lost upon her little hearers. So, then, for ever after their minds were stored with dim pictures of peasant lives in far-off lands and ancient legends of war and love and death. I was one of those children, and one of those songs has often come back of late years to my mind. If I shut my eyes I seem still, after a whole life-time, to hear the low tender notes, charged with all the sorrow of the world, and the syllables of the wild refrain falling slowly one by one in the hushed room: - There were three ravens sat on a tree, Down a down, hey down, hey down; They were as black as they might be; With a down... 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.
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