• 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: 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 (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79