Origins: The Slender Boy

Subject: Origins: The Slender Boy
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Feb 22 - 05:13 PM

A Welsh song, sung by Sarah Pavey

https://ia800603.us.archive.org/30/items/songsoffournatio00boul/songsoffournatio00boul.pdf


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THE SLENDER BOY.

In the fair Vale of Clwyd in the days of my joy,
Ere the primrose was over, I loved my slender boy,
He was graceful as the willow, he was steadfast as the oak,
Bitter tears wet my pillow for the plighted vows I broke.
Brave Sir David came wooing with houses and land

Though I cared not, I wed him, he was mine to command,
I was queen of his treasure, I had homage everywhere,
But my heart found no pleasure, and his love no dwelling there.
With the spring comes the primrose to brighten Plas Draw,*
But my life knows no springtime in the Vale of Clw}^d now. Oh ! a snare is ambition, foolish woman to destroy.
All in vain my contrition, for I love my slender boy !

HAROLD BOULTON.
* The pronunciation of this word in Welsh is nearer in the vowel sounds
to the English o, w, than to a, w.