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When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
After supper walk a mile.
After supper walk a mile.
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest read more
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Neither bribe nor loose thy right.
Neither bribe nor loose thy right.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
The rills of pleasure never run sincere,
(Earth has no unpolluted spring)
From the cursed soil some read more
The rills of pleasure never run sincere,
(Earth has no unpolluted spring)
From the cursed soil some dang'rous taint they bear;
So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting.
With but a plank between them and their fate.
With but a plank between them and their fate.
