Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ9 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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attle of the drums the English army comesThrough the wilderness of Galloway. Alas for Scottish homes!And well may the peasant people fear. Robert Bruce and his band met the brave Sir Walter Selby, And their visors down they drew, and the sparks of battle flew,Near where Dame Sprotte, in her quiet little cot,Was busy at the fire with her husbands breakfast hot.And she was a loyal Scot and true. Then she left the boiling brose, that was hot before the fire, And she ran to the door and viewed the battle oer.Full of might was the fight; on the grass lay many a knight,Till King Robert and Sir Walter were the last that stood upright.And fiercer was their fight than before. Now the Bruces arm was strong, but the Southron pressed him sorely.Two days in the wood he had not tasted food,And his strength began to fail, and he staggered neath his mailAs the foeman pressed him closer, and the blows fell fast as hail,Till he grappled with him there as he stood. II I 90 POEMS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES
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KING ROBERT AND SIR WALTER WERE THE LAST THAT STOOD UPRIGHT. Then out ran the dame from the doorway of the cottage, And she seized Sir Walter there by a straying lock of hairWith a right good twist of her hale and hearty fist;And the Englishman fell backward ere the cause of it he wist,And he yielded him a prisoner in fair. Then they laid aside their arms, and they entered in the cottage. And the king began to say, Despise it he who may,He is surely in the wrong, for Sir Walters arm is strong.But were I not a-famished he would not have fought so longGainst Robert the Bruce this day. I am honored, said the knight, to have fought the Scottish leader. Nay, nay, said the dame. He shall have his proper name.King shall he be, and acknowledged so by thee,Or I cast into thy face this boiling brose that thou dost see,An thou yet deny his claim. &m Nay, hold, said the Bruce, for thy king is sorely hungered.Waste not good cheer on our valiant foeman here.Thou shalt not lack fee: here s a gol

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