The Return of the Dead - and Other Ballads

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Return of the Dead, Edited by Thomas J. Wise, Translated by George Borrow This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Return of the Dead and Other Ballads Editor: Thomas J. Wise Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27407] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RETURN OF THE DEAD*** Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made. THE RETURN OF THE DEAD AND OTHER BALLADS by GEORGE BORROW London: printed for private circulation 1913 p. 5THE RETURN OF THE DEAD Swayne Dyring o’er to the island strayed; And were I only young again! He wedded there a lovely maid— To honied words we list so fain. Together they lived seven years and more; And were I only young again! And seven fair babes to him she bore— To honied words we list so fain. Then death arrived in luckless hour; And were I only young again! Then died the lovely lily flower— To honied words we list so fain. p. 6The Swayne he has crossed the salt sea way, And were I only young again!