Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 / 2008-10-31 00:00:00
EBOOK, BALLADS ***
Transcribed from the 1895 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
BALLADS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Contents:
The Song of Rahero
Dedication
The Slaying of Tamatea
The Venging of Tamatea
Rahero
Notes
The Feast of Famine
The Priest's Vigil
The Lovers
The Feast
The Raid
Notes
Ticonderoga
The Saying of the Name
The Seeking of the Name
The Place of the Name
Notes
Heather Ale
Heather Ale
Note
Christmas At Sea
THE SONG OF RAHERO
A LEGEND OF TAHITI
TO ORI A ORI
Ori, my brother in the island mode,
In every tongue and meaning much my friend,
This story of your country and your clan,
In your loved house, your too much honoured guest,
I made in English. Take it, being done;
And let me sign it with the name you gave.
TERIITERA.
I. THE SLAYING OF TAMATEA
It fell in the days of old, as the men of Taiarapu tell,
A youth went forth to the fishing, and fortune favoured him well.
Tamatea his name: gullible, simple, and kind,
Comely of countenance, nimble of body, empty of mind,
His mother ruled him and loved him beyond the wont of a wife,
Serving the lad for eyes and living herself in his life.
Alone from the sea and the fishing came Tamatea the fair,
Urging his boat to the beach, and the mother awaited him there,
- "Long may you live!" said she.
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