View source for 1897 - Collyer, Robert - Untitled poem

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== Allusion ==
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{{quote|<p>To the merry green-wood went bold <keyword>Robin Hood</keyword>,<br>
With his strong-hearted yeomanry ripe for the fray,<br>
Driving the arrow into the marrow<br>
Of all the proud Normans who came in his way:<br>
Scorning the fetter, fearless and free.<br>
Winning by valour, or foiling by wit.<br>
Dear to our Saxon folk ever is he.<br>
That jolly old rogue with the Saxon grit.<ref name="source">{{:Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1897a}}, p. 54.</ref>}}</p></onlyinclude>

== Source notes ==
Untitled poem in five eight-line stanzas rhyming ''ababcdcd'', printed as a motto to a section on 'The Norman Period' in J. Horsfall Turner's ''Ancient Bingley'' (1897). The following footnote occurs in lieu of a source reference:
<div class="plainquote">The author, Rev. Robert Collyer, D.D., New York, was born at Keighley, and fetched his first wife from Bingley. In Bingley Church Register, we have, "1847, May 25, Robert Collyer, of full age, batchelor, blacksmith, Ilkley, son of Samuel Collyer, blacksmith, to Harriet Watson, of full age, spinster, straw-bonnet maker, Bingley, daughter of Elisha Watson: married by J. Cheadle, vicar, in presence of Thomas Stephenson and John Walker."<ref>{{:Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1897a}}, p. 54 and n. *.</ref></div>

== IRHB comments ==
Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, Collyer was raised at Blubberhouses and Ilkley. He became a methodist minister in 1849, The following year he emigrated to the USA, where he continued as a Methodist preacher. However, as his adherence to abolitionism made him unpopular with Methodist leaders he switched to Unitarianism. Those of his writings published in book form do not seem to include poetry, and it is possible his poem on Saxon resistance was first published in, and perhaps written for, Horsfall's book. The two had collaborated on a book on Ilkley local history published in 1885.<ref>{{:Collyer, Robert 1885a}}.</ref>

== Lists ==
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 315-19.
* Outside scope of {{:Sussex, Lucy 1994a}}.

== Sources ==
* {{:Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1897a}}, p. 54.

== Background ==
* {{:Collyer, Robert 1885a}}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Collyer Wikipedia: Robert Collyer.]

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