Excerpt from Northern Ballads: And Other Poems; Political, Occasional, in Memoriam, Humorous, Etc HE minstrel, all unused to raise His modest song in courtly phrase, Feels timid - as he well may be As he presents, with loyal knee, This tribute of his Muse to thee. For well he wots, the Percy's name, Identified with Britain's fame, Is theme for highest minstrelsy. But Northern true, he loves to trace The glories of the Percy race In ballad lore - his young delight; In Shakspeare's all immortal page; In history of ev'ry age Ever, in council and in fight, The first among the foremost great Whose courage stout sustain'd the state In many an exigence of fate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.