CHILDE ROWLAND
Childe Rowland and his brothers twain
Were playing at the ball,
And there was their sister Burd Ellen In the midst, among them all.
Childe Rowland kicked it with his foot And caught it with his knee;
At last as he plunged among them all O'er the church he made it Ike.
Burd Ellen round about the aisle
To seek the ball is gone,
But long they waited, and longer still, And she came not back again.
They sought her east, they sought her west, They sought her up and down,
And woe were the hearts of those brethren, For she was not to be found.
So at last her eldest brother went to the Warlock Merlin and told him all the case, and asked him if he knew where Burd Ellen was. 'The fair Burd Ellen,' said the Warlock Merlin, 'must have been carried off by the fairies, because s
