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"Cheer up, child! we want you to come and sing to us." Rose answered she knew not what, and obeyed mechanically. She took the lute, and sat down on a bench beneath the house, while the rest grouped themselves round her. "What shall I sing?" "Let us have your old song, 'Earl Haldan's Daughter." Rose shrank from it.
"He leapt into the water, That rover young and bold; He gript Earl Haldan's daughter, He shore her locks of gold; 'Go weep, go weep, proud maiden, The tale is full to-day. Now hey bonny boat, and ho bonny boat! Sail Westward-ho, and away!" As she ceased, a measured voice, with a foreign accent, thrilled through her.
"It was Earl Haldan's daughter, She look'd across the sea; She look'd across the water, And long and loud laugh'd she; 'The locks of six princesses Must be my marriage-fee, So hey bonny boat, and ho bonny boat! Who comes a wooing me? "It was Earl Haldan's daughter, She walk'd along the sand; When she was aware of a knight so fair, Come sailing to the land.
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