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But well thou playedst the housewife's No braver chief could Albion boast
part,

And all thy threads with magic art
Have wound themselves about this heart,

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Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent.

He loved them both, but both in vain, Nor him beheld, nor her again.

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He long survives, who lives an hour In ocean, self-upheld;

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And so long he, with unspent power,

His destiny repelled;

And ever, as the minutes flew,

Entreated help, or cried "Adieu!"

At length, his transient respite past,
His comrades, who before
Had heard his voice in every blast,
Could catch the sound no more:
For then, by toil subdued, he drank
The stifling wave, and then he sank.

No poet wept him; but the page
Of narrative sincere,

That tells his name, his worth, his age,
Is wet with Anson's tear:
And tears by bards or heroes shed
Alike immortalize the dead.

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'Twad be owre lang a tale to tell
How monie stories past,
An' how they crouded to the yill,21
When they were a' dismist;
How drink gaed round in cogs22 and caups 23
Amang the furms24 an' benches:
An' cheese and bread frae women's laps 205
Was dealt about in lunches
An' dawds25 that day.

In comes a gawsie,26 gash27 guidwife

An' sits down by the fire,

Syne28 draws her kebbuck29 an' her knife; The lasses they are shyer:

The auld guidmen about the grace

Frae side to side they bother,

Till some ane by his bonnet lays,
And gi'es them't,30 like a tether,
Fu' lang that day.

Waesucks!31 for him that gets nae lass,

Or lasses that hae naething!
Sma' need has he to say a grace,
Or melvie32 his braw claithing!
O wives, be mindfu' ance yoursel
How bonie lads ye wanted,
An' dinna for a kebbuck-heel33
Let lasses be affronted
On sic a day!

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13 packs.

7 tavern. 10 pint-mug. 14 small-beer.

32 soil.

11 good luck to!

30 gives it to them.

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1 next. 2 babbles. a fellow. 4 cunningly. partly. all through the house. 8 ale-cup. 9 cakes.

12 learning. 16 corner.

15 tickle.

17 roaring.

28 then.

31 alas.

34 rope.

33 cheese-rind.

37 gaps in the hedge. 38 young fellows.

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