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A Book of Old Ballads — Complete
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Public-domain ebook
Language: en778 downloads on Project Gutenberg
Subjects
In: Poetry·Mythology, Legends & Folklore·British Literature
Public-domain ebook sourced from Project Gutenberg #7535.
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The thanks and acknowledgments of the publishers are due to the following: to Messrs. B. Feldman & Co., 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. 2, for "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"; to Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Messrs. Methuen & Co. for "Mandalay" from Barrack Room Ballads; and to the Executors of the late Oscar Wilde for "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."
"The Earl of Mar's Daughter", "The Wife of Usher's Well", "The Three Ravens", "Thomas the Rhymer", "Clerk Colvill", "Young Beichen", "May Collin", and "Hynd Horn" have been reprinted from English and Scottish Ballads, edited by Mr. G. L. Kittredge and the late Mr. F. J. Child, and published by the Houghton Mifflin Company.
The remainder of the ballads in this book, with the exception of "John Brown's Body", are from Percy's Reliques, Volumes I and II.
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