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28 THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF |
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Charming maid of Garnavilla ! Lovely maid of Garnavilla ! Beauty, grace, and virtue wait On lovely Kate of Garnavilla.
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ASE often visits shepherd-swains, |
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Nor in the lowly cot disdains To take a bit of dinner; But would not for a turtle-treat, Sit with a miser or a cheat, Or cankered party sinner.
Ease makes the sons of labor glad, Ease travels with the merry lad
Who whistles by his wagon ; With me she prattles all day long, And choruses my simple song,
And shares my foaming flagon.
The lamp of life is soon burnt out; Then who'd for riches make a rout,
Except a doating blockhead ? When Charon takes 'em both aboard, Of equal worth's the miser's hoard
And spendthrift's empty pocket.
In such a scurvy world as this We must not hope for perfect bliss,
And length of life together; We have no moral liberty At will to live, at will to die,
In fair or stormy weather. |
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