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FOLK TALES AND FAIRY LORE. "S
My clothes are unmended,
My wool is unspun,
For my own good housewife
Has left it undone.
My cows are unmilked,
Though noontide is o'er,
My babe is unfondled
And left on the floor.
My dwelling is harried,
My hearth bare and cold.
My treasure and riches
Is laid in the mould.
Hush! hush! little darling,
Sleep soundly, my man,
No crying wakes mother,
Ba Ba now, my lamb.

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Folk tales and fairy lore in Gaelic and English
DescriptionCollected from oral tradition by James Macdougall ; edited with introduction and notes by George Calder.
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