Or does she suspect the "bonny bird" of possessing secret knowledge? In the world of the ballad, the coexistence of the natural with the numinous is taken for granted.Indeed, the robin does answer. But what it says is perhaps more grim than anything uttered by Edgar Allan Poe's sinister raven. Maisie's only wedding shall be her funeral! Is this a vision of an untimely end?
from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: A Reading of 'Proud Maisie' by Sir Walter Scott
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