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" And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung! To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue! And when with envy time transported Shall think... "
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets - Page 120
by George Gilfillan - 1860
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs ...

Thomas Percy - 1859 - 728 pages
...their mother's tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. THE WITCH OF WOKET, WRITTEN by Dr. Harrington, of Bath, hi 1748, but here printed from a copy supplied...
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Literary Reminiscences and Gleanings

Richard Wright Procter - 1860 - 182 pages
...once beautiful and consolatory, expressed by an English bard of the last century : — ' And wlien with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys.' THE GEAYE OF HESEY LIVERSEEGE....
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Folk Songs

John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...fondly clung, To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue ! * And when with envy, Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. ANONYMOUS. BREAK, BREAK, BREAK!...
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The Collegians: A Tale of Garryowen

Gerald Griffin - 1861 - 310 pages
...they fondly clung. To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue, And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys. You'll in your girls again be courted, And I • *ith a glance at Kyrle — And I go wooing witb the...
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Measure for measure, by the author of 'Greymore'.

Measure - 1862 - 328 pages
...herself, half unconsciously, one or two bars of an old song, falling gradually into the words, " You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys." " How do the words go, Beatrice ? That old thing often comes into my head." Beatrice did not answer,...
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The Rose, the shamrock and the thistle, a magazine. Vol.1, June ..., Volume 4

1864 - 694 pages
...exquisite picture of domestic felicity, carolled forth i» tones that Chanticleer might have envied : " And when with envy, Time transported Shall think to rob us of onr joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys !" " A frog he would...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...of Orders Gray. We '11 shine in more substantial honors, And to be noble we '11 be good.* Winefreda. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to...joys, You '11 in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys. Ibid. My mind to me a kingdom is ; f Such perfect joy therein I find, As...
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The Poetical Keepsake: Consisting of the Sweetest Poems

1866 - 522 pages
...fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, And hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. COLIN'S COMPLAINT. DESPAIRING...
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...they fondly clung : to see them look their mother's features, to hear them lisp their mothers tongue. And when with envy time transported shall think to rob us of our joys, you'll in your girls again be courted, and I'll go a wooing in my boys. 782 TO ALTHEA FROM PRISO.V...
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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 376 pages
...they fondly clung; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Unknown. cxni. A MAN may live...
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