“There is a verse, which Annie of Lochroyan sings about her ring, that torments my memory, 'tis so true of myself.”
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The Lass of Lochroyan
The Lass of Lochroyan [Fair Annie of Lochroyan] (Child Ballad No. 76)
Anonymous · Child Ballad No. 76
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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“O yours was gude, and gude enough, But aye the best was mine; For yours was o' the gude red gold, But mine o' the diamond fine.”
Inferred This entry identifies an implicit reference to the ballad of "The Lass of Lochroyan," also known as "Annie of Lochroyan" (Child Ballad 76). The editors infer the specific ballad based on Emerson's contextual identification and Fuller's quoted verse.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.