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HIBERNIAN SONGSTER. |
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Then remember, wherever your goblet Is crowned. Through this world, whether eastward or westward you roam,
When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, Oh, remember the smile that adorns her at home:
In France, when the heart of a woman sets sail
On the ocean of wedlock Its fortune to try. Love seldom goes far in a vessel so frail.
But Just pilots her off, and then bids her good-bye; While the daughters of Erin keep the boy
Ever smiling beside his faithful oar. Through billows of woe and beams of joy.
The same as he looked when he left the shore. Then remember, wherever your goblet Is crowned,
Through this world, whether eastward or westward you roam, When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round,
Oh, remember the smile that adorns her at home! |
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THE GIRL I'VE LEFT BEHIND ME.
I'm lonesome since I cross'd tbe hill,
And o'er the moor and valley; Such heavy thoughts my heart do fill,
Since parting with my Sally. I seek no more the fine and gay, *
For each does but remind me How swift the hours did pass away
With the girl I left behind me. Oh I ne'er shall I forget the night,
The stars were bright above me, Aad gently lent their silv'ry light,
When first she vow'd to love me. But now I'm bound to Brighton camp,
Kind Heaven, then pray guide me. And send me safely back again
To tbe girl I've left behind me. Had I the heart to sing her praise
With all the skill of Homer, One only theme should fill my lays,
The charms of my true lover. So let the night be e'er so dark,
Or e'er so wet and windy, Kind Heaven send me back again
To the girl I've left behind me. Her golden hair in ringlets fair,
Her eyes like diamonds shining, Her slender waist, with carriage chaste,
May leave the swain repining. Ye gods above! oh, hear my prayer,
To ray beauteous fair to bind me, And send me safely back again
To the girl I've left behind me. The bee shall honey taste no more.
The dove become a ranger, The falling waves shall cease to roar,
E'er I shall seek to change her. The vows we register'd above
Shall ever cheer and bind me In constancy to her I love,
Tbe girl I've left behind me. My mind her form shall still retain
In sleeping or in waking, Until I see my love again,
For whom my heart is breaking. If ever I return that way.
And she should not decline me, I evermore will live and stay
With tbe girl I've left behind me. |
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