The Minstrel
William Lisle Bowles
1762 to 1850
Listen, lords and ladies bright!
I can sing of many a knight
Who fought in paynim lands afar;
Of Bevis, or of Iscapar.
I have tales of wandering maids,
And fairy elves in haunted glades,
Of phantom-troops that silent ride
By the moonlit forest's side.
I have songs (fair maidens, hear!)
To warn the lovelorn lady's ear.
The choice of all my treasures take,
And grant us food for pity's sake!
William Lisle Bowles's The Minstrel
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