StoryTitle("caps", "Allen-a-Dale") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(90, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale has no fagot for burning, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale has no furrow for turning, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale has no fleece for the spinning, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet Allen-a-Dale has red gold for the winning. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, read me my riddle! come, hearken my tale! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tell me the craft of bold Allen-a-Dale.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Baron of Ravensworth prances in pride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he views his domains upon Arkindale side; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mere for his net, and the land for his game; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The chase for the wild and the park for the tame; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet the fish of the lake, and the deer of the vale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are less free to Lord Dacre than Allen-a-Dale!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale was ne'er belted a knight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though his spur be as sharp, and his blade be as bright; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet twenty tall yeomen will draw at his word, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the best of our nobles his bonnet will vail ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who at Rere-cross on Stanmore meets Allen-a-Dale!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale to his wooing is come;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mother, she ask'd of his household and home; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Though the castle of Richmond stand fair on the hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My hall,\" quoth bold Allen, \"shows gallanter still;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'T is the blue vault of heaven, with its crescent so pale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with all its bright spangles,\" said Allen-a-Dale.", "") ?>
PagePoem(91, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The father was steel, and the mother was stone; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They lifted the latch, and they bade him begone; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But loud on the morrow, their wail and their cry; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had laugh'd on the lass with his bonny black eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she fled to the forest to hear a love-tale,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the youth it was told by was Allen-a-Dale!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sir Walter Scott.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>