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Ballad, a story in verse, composed with spirit, generally of patriotic interest, and sung originally to the harp.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ballad in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable