Into the olden days, the fresh legend states, while the grim Sir Ranulph view’dA wretched hag the girl footsteps pull underneath his lordly wood
Anybody else, again, there are manage one to towards the smashed barkA print is established, where fiends keeps applied the scathing talons ebony;You to, ere they drops, this new raven calls thrice off you to definitely wizard bough;And that for every cry doth denote what area new Fates allow it to be
Their bloodhounds twain he titled amain, and straightway offered the lady pursue;Was never seen when you look at the forest green, therefore brutal, therefore fleet a dash!
With vision away from flames so you can Ranulph emerged for each and every red-colored and high pressure hound,Whenever you are mangled, torn-a vision forlorn!-the new hag lay on the ground;E’en in which she put try turned into the latest clay, and you can limb and you can reeking boneWithin the planet, which have ribald mirth, from the Ranulph grim have been tossed.
And even though until now the latest surface was damp thereupon poor witch’s gore,A tangerine-tree stake performed Ranulph bring, and you may pierced their bosom’s key;And, strange to share with, what second befell!-one to part simultaneously took options,And you will richly given, within the sleep, good suckers forth performed take.
Each year fresh boughs arrive-they waxes grand in proportions;And you will, which have crazy happiness, which prodigy Sir Ranulph grim espies.Someday, as he, below one to tree, reclined into the delight and you will pride,A department is actually receive on the floor-the next, Sir Ranulph passed away!
And you can of one to time a fatal strength provides influenced one to Wizard Forest,To help you Ranulph’s line a warning sign out-of doom and you may future:To possess when good bough is based, We trow, underneath its tone so you can rest,Ere suns shall go up thrice on heavens good Rookwood yes shall pass away! keep reading
