And in
together
did they leap MS.
William Wordsworth
Seven little Islands, green and bare, 60
Have risen from out the deep:
The fishers say, those sisters fair,
By faeries all are buried there,
And there together sleep.
Sing, mournfully, oh! mournfully, 65
The solitude of Binnorie.
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VARIANTS ON THE TEXT
[Variant 1:
1836.
I could . . . 1807. ]
[Variant 2:
1807.
The Irish Rovers . . . MS. ]
[Variant 3:
1807.
The sisters ran like mountain sheep MS.
And in together did they leap MS. ]
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: It is a well-known Scottish Ballad. In Jamieson's 'Popular
Ballads', vol. i. p. 50 (1806), its title is "The Twa Sisters. " In
Walter Scott's 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', vol. iii. p. 287, it
is called "The Cruel Sisters. " In 'The Ballads of Scotland', collected
by W. Edmonstone Aytoun (1858), vol. i. p. 194, it is printed
"Binnorie. " In 1807 Wordsworth printed the sub-title 'The Solitude of
Binnorie'.
