Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 238
THE DtLCIMER. 77-] THE OLD-TIME MINSTRELS. 217 the sixteenth century, we have a picture of therlorn condition of the once jovial gleeman : The way was long, the wind was cold,The minstrel was infirm and old;His withered cheek and tresses graySeemed to have known a better day. … A. BAND OF MINSTRELS WITH DULCIMER, BAGPIPE AND VIOL. The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he Who sung of Border chivalry,—- For well-a-day their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be…
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