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I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the read more

I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the hours pass'd away
With the girl I left behind me.

When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow;
And when the leaves in Summer-time read more

When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow;
And when the leaves in Summer-time their colour dare not show;
Then will I change the colour too, I wear in my caubeen;
But till that day, plaze God, I'll stick to wearin' o' the Green.

Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven
for the lazy, but we allow eight read more

Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven
for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.

And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.

And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February eight-and-twenty all alone,
And all read more

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February eight-and-twenty all alone,
And all the rest have thirty-one:
Unless that leap-year doth combine,
And give to February twenty-nine.