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I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Song, Children, Passion
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.