Hannibal journal and western union. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1851-1852, 1851-09-18
POETRY.
zee GHOSTS WARMINa.
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DANISH KEMPE WISER.

THE GHOSTS WARMING.
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DANISH KH.MPE WISER.
Child Dyring has ridden throughout the Isle glade,
There he welded SO fair maid.
Together they lived for seven long years,
Seven BARNS have they gotten for love and for tears
But Deaths come there in gladncss' stead,
Aud that winsome lily flower is dead.
That swain has ridden throughout the Isle-glade,
And there he has married another maid
He's married aomaid of lordly name,
But she was a grim and ugly dame.
When into the castle court she rode,
With tears in their eyes, the seven Iahns stood
The BARNS theyast5od in sorrow and doubt,
She up with her foot and kicked them out.
Nor ale nor mead 10 the bairnies she gave,
9But hunger and hate from me ye'll have"
She took from them the pillow blue,
And said con the bare straw lie shall you"
She took from them the great wax light
Says "no& shall yolosleep in the dark all night"
Twas late in the nigh, anI t!..s ssssjas gept,.,.
Their mother beneath the oclOels heard that;
End "mRy go and my bainies s6e?'
she plead so sore, SO 1ong for hereare, e
That he al last said yea to her prayer. o
"And thou shalt come back at H., cocks screams
No longer blde thou than the mornings beam" ''''
With bones so strong like DO. she's away, o..
She's riyen both walt and marble gray. -.
When near to the dwelling her footsteps fell,
The dogs filled lie sky with howl and yell.
And when she came 10 the castle gate, -.
Her eldest daughter stood thercat. . .......9 ::
"Why slarrst thouhere, dear daughter mine, e.
And thy brothers and sisters with thee in ptnel"
"TOrsooth thou'rt a woman both fair and fine, .
But you are 10 dear mother Of mine." 80
ooh how should l be fne or fair? :..:'. q, T.,
My cheek is pale and the grounds my lair"
"Dly mother was.white with cheek; of red,
But thou art wan and like one dead."> ..,-.,'
/ "Oh how should be white andred, T., 'H +
| So long as Tye been cold and dead?n =, -
When the chambers rushy floor she won, ''
Down the BARNS cheeks the ieaTs did run.
She dressed theone and brushed it there, q,
! She coined and plated another's hair. Cd. o..
The third she handled upon her knee, '..
/ The fourth she kissed SO mothetly. - .,; 80
she's taken the .hfth'lpOd her lap, - e.. 80. ..
( And swocily sucked it at herpap e.. e ,...,
To Ter eldest daughter then said she, e
"Bid Child Dyrng come here 20 me.". ..'.''
! Alright CAME be 70 tile chamber din, .
And With angry mood she said to hirnj
81 lettyod storeof bread and mead. ~.
My children die Of hunger and need, ~. -.
81 LEFT you pillows blue aud file, -.
! My chiRren onthe bare straw.pine- 20: e..
81 left you many along wax light; p e.
/ My children weep in the dark all night.
'<If e'er come back to visit tlee, -. &
Woful and weary thy luck shall be.
\ Un spake little Kirstin, in bed that lay;
.''Io thy baimid5 Ph do the best nay" III,
/ Aye, when they heard the dog bark and groHl, =
Iheygaye to'thG bairpies bread and the bowl ::
Aye, when the gQard:dog howIed, in haste =. =
Themselves they CLOSED and blessed from tie ghos
Aye when the lilne dog Iowled, with fear e..
L They shook Otiho thoughttha the dead was near