Sir Patrick Spens
"Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58), and is of Scottish origin.
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“And no one knows whats yet to come.
For Patrick Pearse had said
That in every generation
Must Irelands blood be shed.
From mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
Its fiftie fadom deip,
And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
—Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 4144)
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