{"id":768,"date":"2010-12-16T02:37:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=768"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:46:30","slug":"the-death-of-robin-hood-by-eugene-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-death-of-robin-hood-by-eugene-field\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Robin Hood by Eugene Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Death of Robin Hood<\/h1>\n

?by Eugene Field<\/em><\/p>\n

“Give me my bow,” said Robin Hood,
\n“An arrow give to me;
\nAnd where ‘t is shot mark thou that spot,
\nFor there my grave shall be.”<\/p>\n

Then Little John did make no sign,
\nAnd not a word he spake;
\nBut he smiled, altho’ with mickle woe
\nHis heart was like to break.<\/p>\n

He raised his master in his arms,
\nAnd set him on his knee;
\nAnd Robin’s eyes beheld the skies,
\nThe shaws, the greenwood tree.<\/p>\n

The brook was babbling as of old,
\nThe birds sang full and clear,
\nAnd the wild-flowers gay like a carpet lay
\nIn the path of the timid deer.<\/p>\n

“O Little John,” said Robin Hood,
\n“Meseemeth now to be
\nStanding with you so stanch and true
\nUnder the greenwood tree.<\/p>\n

“And all around I hear the sound
\nOf Sherwood long ago,
\nAnd my merry men come back again,?
\nYou know, sweet friend, you know!<\/p>\n

“Now mark this arrow; where it falls,
\nWhen I am dead dig deep,
\nAnd bury me there in the greenwood where
\nI would forever sleep.”<\/p>\n

He twanged his bow. Upon its course
\nThe clothyard arrow sped,
\nAnd when it fell in yonder dell,
\nBrave Robin Hood was dead.<\/p>\n

The sheriff sleeps in a marble vault,
\nThe king in a shroud of gold;
\nAnd upon the air with a chanted pray’r
\nMingles the mock of mould.<\/p>\n

But the deer draw to the shady pool,
\nThe birds sing blithe and free,
\nAnd the wild-flow’rs bloom o’er a hidden tomb
\nUnder the greenwood tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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