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"Lazy sheep, pray tell me why In the pleasant fields you lie, Eating grass, and daisies white, From the morning till the night? Everything can something do, But what kind of use are you?"
"Nay, my little master, nay, Do not serve me so, I pray; Don't you see the wool that grows On my back, to make you clothes? Cold, and very cold, you'd be If you had not wool from me.
True, it seems a pleasant thing, To nip the daisies in the spring; But many chilly nights I pass On the cold and dewy grass, Or pick a scanty dinner, where All the common's brown and bare.
Then the farmer comes at last, When the merry spring is past, And cuts my woolly coat away, To warm you in the winter's day: Little master, this is why In the pleasant fields I lie."
the meter seems compatible with "Bagme Bloma",
Brunaim bairiþ bairka bogum laubans liubans liudandei, gilwagroni, glitmunjandei, bagme bloma, blauandei, fagrafahsa, liþulinþi, fraujinondei fairguni.
Wopjand windos, wagjand lindos, lutiþ limam laikandei; slaihta, raihta, hweitarinda, razda rodeiþ reirandei, bandwa bairhta, runa goda, þiuda meina þiuþjandei.
Andanahti milhmam neipiþ, liuhteiþ liuhmam lauhmuni; laubos liubai fliugand lausai, tulgus, triggwa, standandei. Bairka baza beidiþ blaika fraujinondei fairguni.
dab (ᛏ) 29 June 2005 08:46 (UTC)
Is the poems from this book available in reprints or online? 惑乱 分からん 21:40, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to get an image of the cover of Songs for the Philologists? I found one on TolkienBooks.net, but that was it. BKalesti 20:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
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