{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch026.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch026.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch026.htm","text":"26.1 THERE were three rauens sat on a tree,\nRefrain: Downe a downe, hay down, hay downe\nThere were three rauens sat on a tree,\nRefrain: With a downe\nThere were three rauens sat on a tree,\nThey were as blacke as they might be.\nRefrain: With a downe derrie, derrie, derrie, downe, downe\n26.2 The one of them said to his mate,\n\u2018Where shall we our breakefast take?\u2019\n26.3 \u2018Downe in yonder greene field,\nThere lies a knight slain vnder his shield.\n26.4 \u2018His hounds they lie downe at his feete,\nSo well they can their master keepe.\n26.5 \u2018His haukes they flie so eagerly,\nThere\u2019s no fowle dare him come nie.\u2019\n26.6 Downe there comes a fallow doe,\nAs great with yong as she might goe.\n26.7 She lift vp his bloudy hed,\nAnd kist his wounds that were so red.\n26.8 She got him vp vpon her backe,\nAnd carried him to earthen lake.\n26.9 She buried him before the prime,\nShe was dead herselfe ere euen-song time.\n26.10 God send euery gentleman,\nSuch haukes, such hounds, and such a leman.","title":"The Child Ballads: 26. The Three Ravens","type":"page"}