Reading Comprehension #14019

The Two Ravens
(The Twa Corbies)

Anonymous

As I was walking all alone
I heard two corbies making a moan
The one unto the other did say,
Where shall we go to dine today?
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In behind yon old turf dike
I know there lies a new-slain knight
And nobody knows that he lies there
But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair.
 
His hound is to the hunting gone,
His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl home,
His lady‘s taken another mate,
So we may make our dinner sweet.
 
You’ll sit on his white neck-bone,
And I’ll pick out his bonny blue eyes
With one lock of his golden hair,
We‘ll thatch our nest when it grows bare.
 
Many a one for him makes moan,
But none shall know where he is gone
o‘er his white bones, when they are bare,
The wind shall blow forevermore.
 

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