The Home Book of Verse: American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2H. Holt, 1918 - 4009 pages |
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Page 1957
... play wid you , You've such a way wid you , Father avick ! Still , for all you've so gentle a soul , Gad , you've your flock in the grandest control , Checking the crazy ones , Coaxin ' onaisy ones , Liftin ' the lazy ones on wid the ...
... play wid you , You've such a way wid you , Father avick ! Still , for all you've so gentle a soul , Gad , you've your flock in the grandest control , Checking the crazy ones , Coaxin ' onaisy ones , Liftin ' the lazy ones on wid the ...
Page 1958
... play - boy could claim an equality At comicality , Father , wid you ? Once the Bishop looked grave at your jest , Till this remark set him off wid the rest : " Is it lave gaiety All to the laity ? Cannot the clargy be Irishmen too ...
... play - boy could claim an equality At comicality , Father , wid you ? Once the Bishop looked grave at your jest , Till this remark set him off wid the rest : " Is it lave gaiety All to the laity ? Cannot the clargy be Irishmen too ...
Page 1965
... play on my fiddle in Dooney , Folk dance like a wave of the sea ; My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet , My brother in Moharabuice . I passed my brother and cousin : They read in their books of prayer ; I read in my book of songs I bought ...
... play on my fiddle in Dooney , Folk dance like a wave of the sea ; My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet , My brother in Moharabuice . I passed my brother and cousin : They read in their books of prayer ; I read in my book of songs I bought ...
Page 1992
... and sweet to the sense , Will be damnable mouldy a hundred years hence . Then why should we turmoil in cares and in fears , Turn all our tranquill'ty to sighs and to tears ? Let's eat , drink , and play till the worms 1992 Pipe and Can.
... and sweet to the sense , Will be damnable mouldy a hundred years hence . Then why should we turmoil in cares and in fears , Turn all our tranquill'ty to sighs and to tears ? Let's eat , drink , and play till the worms 1992 Pipe and Can.
Page 1993
American and English, 1580-1918. Let's eat , drink , and play till the worms do corrupt us , ' Tis certain , Post mortem Nulla voluptas . For health , wealth and beauty , wit , learning and sense , Must all come to ... play till the worms ...
American and English, 1580-1918. Let's eat , drink , and play till the worms do corrupt us , ' Tis certain , Post mortem Nulla voluptas . For health , wealth and beauty , wit , learning and sense , Must all come to ... play till the worms ...
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