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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BALLADE, by PAUL FORT
First Line: The pretty maid she died, she died, in love-bed as she lay
Last Line: And they went off a-field to work, as they do every day.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials
First Line: The pretty maid she died, she died, in love-bed as she lay
Last Line: And they went off a-field to work, as they do every day.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials
THE pretty maid she died, she died, in love-bed as she lay;
They took her to the churchyard, all at the break of day;
They laid her all alone there, all in her white array;
They laid her all alone there, a-coffined in the clay;
And they came back so merrily, all at the dawn of day;
A-singing, all so merrily, "The dog must have his day!"
The pretty maid is dead, is dead, in love-bed as she lay;
And they went off a-field to work, as they do every day.
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