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And from my native shore :

The cruel fates between us throw

A boundless ocean's roar;

But boundless oceans, roaring wide,

Between Love and me,

my

They never, never can divide

My heart and foul from thee.

II.

Farewell, farewell, ELIZA dear,

The maid that I adore!

A boding voice is in mine ear,
We part to meet no more!

But the latest throb that leaves my heart,
While Death ftands victor by,
That throb, ELIZA, is thy part,

And thine that latest figh!

Avaunt, away! the cruel fway,

Tyrannic man's dominion;

The Sportsman's joy, the murd'ring cry, The flutt'ring, gory pinion!

IV.

But PEGGY dear, the ev'ning's clear,
Thick flies the skimming Swallow;
The sky is blue, the fields in view,
All fading-green and yellow :
Come let us ftray our gladfome way,
And view the charms of Nature;

The rustling corn, the fruited thorn,
And ev'ry happy creature.

V.

We'll gently walk, and fweetly talk,
Till the filent moon shine clearly;
I'll grafp thy waift, and fondly prest,
Swear how I love thee dearly:
Not vernal show'rs to budding flow'rs,
Not Autumn to the Farmer,

So dear can be, as thou to me,

My fair, my lovely Charmer!

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FR

And from my native shore :

The cruel fates between us throw

A boundless ocean's roar;
But boundless oceans, roaring wide,
Between my Love and me,

They never, never can divide

My heart and foul from thee.

II.

Farewell, farewell, ELIZA dear,

The maid that I adore!

A boding voice is in mine ear,
We part to meet no more!

But the latest throb that leaves my heart,
While Death ftands victor by,
That throb, ELIZA, is thy part,

And thine that latest sigh!

味味味冬

SH

EPITAPH ON A HENPECKED COUNTRY SQUIRE.

As father Adam first was fool'd,

A cafe that's ftill too common,

Here lyes a man a woman rul'd,
The devil rul'd the woman.

EPIGRAM ON SAID OCCASION.

O Death, hadft thou but fpar'd his life,
Whom we, this day, lament!

We freely wad exchang'd the wife,

An' a' been weel content.

Ev'n as he is, cauld in his graff,

The Swap we yet will do't;

Tak thou the Carlin's carcafe aff,
Thou'fe get the faul o' boot.

ANOTHER.

One Queen Artemifa, as old stories tell, When depriv'd of her husband fhe loved for

well,

In refpect for the love and affection he'd

fhow'd her,

She reduc'd him to duft, and the drank up the Powder.

But Queen N*****

complexion,

of a diff'rent

When call'd on to order the fun'ral direction,
Would have eat her dead lord, on a slender

pretence,

ex

Not to show her respect, but—to fave the ex

pence.

EPITAPH S.

ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER.

Here Sowter **** in Death does fleep;

To H-ll, if he's gane thither, Satan, gie him thy gear to keep,

He'll haud it weel thegither.

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