Binnorie

"Binnorie," or "The Two Sisters," is a ballad on an old theme popular in

A Bundle of Ballads Henry Morley 1858

The ballad was "The Twa Sisters of Binnorie," as set by

Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt Henry John Newbolt 1900

-- The ballad was "The Twa Sisters of Binnorie," as set by

Poems: New and Old Henry John Newbolt 1900

Such refrains as "Binnorie, O Binnorie," "Jennifer gentle an 'rosemaree," "Down, a down, a down, a down," have ancient secrets in them, had we ears to hear.

Ballad Book Katherine Lee Bates 1894

And as she lay there in her beauty a famous harper passed by the mill - dam of Binnorie, and saw her sweet pale face.

English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

-- From the ballad of the "Twa Sisters o 'Binnorie."

English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

And though he travelled on far away he never forgot that face, and after many days he came back to the bonny mill-stream of Binnorie.

English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

And her sister, coming behind her, caught her round the waist and dashed her into the rushing mill-stream of Binnorie.

English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

So he made a harp out of her breast-bone and her hair, and travelled on up the hill from the mill-dam of Binnorie, till he came to the castle of the king her father.

English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

Once upon a time there were two king's daughters lived in a bower near the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie.

English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885