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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 flee.
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
