The sun was setting on a fine summer's evening and the peasantry were returning from labour, when, on the side of a green hill, appeared a procession of thousands of apparently little boys, habited in mantles of green, freckled with light. One, taller than the rest, ran before them, and seemed to enter the hill, and again appeared at its summit. This was repeated three times, and all vanished. The peasantry, who beheld it, called, 'The Fareweel o' the Fairies to the Burrow Hill'.
Remains Of Nithsdale and Galloway Song (1810) by R. H. Cromek
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Posted by drewbhoy
14th March 2024ce
Edited 14th March 2024ce
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