“The Banks of Allan Water”

Description

"By the banks of Allan Water When the sweet springtime did fall, There I saw the miller's lovely daughter, Fairest of them all." By autumn, the girl has been betrayed by her soldier love and grieves; by winter, she is dead

Notes

Quoted by Hardy in _Far from the Madding Crowd_ (1874). - RBW

Broadsides

• NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(98b), "On the Banks of Allan Water," Poet's Boz (sic.) (Dundee), c.1890; same broadside as RB.m.143(211)

References

1. DT, ALANWATR*
2. Roud #4260
3. BI, DTalanwa