{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch027.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch027.htm","text":"27.1 SEVEN lang years I hae served the king,\nRefrain: Fa fa fa fa lilly\nAnd I never got a sight of his daughter but ane.\nRefrain: With my glimpy, glimpy, glimpy eedle,\nLillum too tee a ta too a tee a ta a tally\n27.2 I saw her thro a whummil bore,\nAnd I neer got a sight of her no more.\n27.3 Twa was putting on her gown,\nAnd ten was putting pins therein.\n27.4 Twa was putting on her shoon,\nAnd twa was buckling them again.\n27.5 Five was combing down her hair,\nAnd I never got a sight of her nae mair.\n27.6 Her neck and breast was like the snow,\nThen from the bore I was forced to go.","title":"The Child Ballads: 27. The Whummil Bore","type":"page"}