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John Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown
Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher
Last night a zealous Irishman in town
Last year I trod these fields with Di
Life and the Universe show spontaneity

Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay
Lord Erskine at women presuming to rail
Macphairson Clonglocketty Angus McClan
Majestic Monarch! whom the other gods

May the Babylonish curse

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Men, dying, make their wills, but wives
Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square
My Aunt! my dear unmarried aunt!
My brother Jack was nine in May.
My coachman, in the moonlight there
My curse upon your venom'd stang
My heart will break - I'm sure it will
My Lord Tomnoddy's the son of an Earl
My pipe is lit, my grog is mixed

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no moon!

Nay, I cannot come into the garden just now
Near ould Skibbereen, in the gim of the owshun
'Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going?"
No sun

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Now the Widow McGee .

Now there was Uncle Elnathan Shaw

O come and be my mate!" said the Eagle to the Hen

O cool in the summer is salad.

O my earliest love, who, ere I number'd

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O what harper could worthily harp it

O will ye choose to hear the news.
Och! the Coronation! what celebration
Of all the ships upon the blue.

Oh, listen to the tale of Mister William, if you please 342

Oh, 'tis time I should talk to your mother.

Oh, whar shill we go w'en de great day comes
"Oh, what is that comes gliding in"

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Oh, yes, we've be'n fixin' up some sence we sold that

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Old Peter led a wretched life.

On deck, beneath the awning.

On me he shall ne'er put a ring

On, on, my brown Arab, away, away

On the eighth day of March it was, some people say
One Balaam Vermicelli Lepidoptera FitzApe
One day, as I was going by .

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One morning when Spring was in her teens
One stormy morn I chanced to meet
Paddy, in want of a dinner one day
Paddy McCabe was dying one day
Pour, varlet, pour the water

Row-diddy, dow de, my little sis

Sam Brown was a fellow from way down East
Sez Alderman Grady

Sez Corporal Madden to Private McFadden ·
She kept her secret well, oh, yes

She laid it where the sunbeams fall
She sits in a fashionable parlor

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She wrote to her daddy in Portland, Maine, from out

in Denver, Col.

Sly Beelzebub took all occasions

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'Speak, O man, less recent! Fragmentary fossil!
Spontaneous Us

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Swans sing before they die: 'twere no bad thing

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Sweet Nea! for your lovely sake

The auld wife sat at her ivied door

The beauteous Ethel's father has a

The blessed Poster-girl leaned out

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The editor sat with his head in his hands

The frugal crone, whom praying priests attend
The maid, as by the papers doth appear

The mountain and the squirrel

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The "Orchids" were as tough a crowd.
"The proper way for a man to pray'
The sun is in the sky, mother, the flowers are spring-
ing fair

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The sun was shining on the sea

"There is no God," the wicked saith

There was a lady liv'd at Leith

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There was a negro preacher, I have heard

There was once a little man, and his rod and line he
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There were three sailors of Bristol city

There's doubtless something in domestic doings

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There's some is born with their straight legs by natur 233
There's somewhat on my breast, father
They may talk of love in a cottage
They nearly strike me dumb.

They tell us that Woman was made of a rib
They went to sea in a sieve, they did
This is the bait

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Thou happy, happy elf!

Thou shalt have one God only; who

Thou who, when fears attack.

Tim Turpin he was gravel blind
Time has a magic wand.

To Lake Aghmoogenegamook

"To me,

I swear, you're a volume rare

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

'Twas on a lofty vase's side .

'Twas on the shores that round our coast

Two webfoot brothers loved a fair

Two Yankee wags, one summer day

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Uncle Peter Tascus Runnels has been feeble some of
late

Upon ane stormy Sunday

We love thee, Ann Maria Smith

Well, if ever I saw such another man since my mother

bound my head

Werther had a love for Charlotte

We've fought with many men acrost the seas
We've lived for forty years, dear wife .

What, he on whom our voices unanimously ran
What makes you come here fer, Mister
What motley cares Corilla's mind perplex
What, what, what

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When Chapman billies leave the street
When deeply in love with Miss Emily Pryne
When Dido found Eneas would not come

When like a bud my Julia blows

When man and maiden meet, I like to see a drooping

eye

When Mary Ann Dollinger got the skule daown thar

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Where shall I begin with the endless delights
Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays

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Which I wish to remark

Who has e'er been in London, that overgrown place. 292
"Who stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the

shop

Why is it the children don't love me

Will there never come a season

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With due condescension, I'd call your attention
Ye may tramp the world over

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Years years ago, -ere yet my dreams

Yes, I got another Johnny; but he was to Number One
"You are old, Father William," the young man said
You gave me the key of your heart, my love.

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"You must give back," her mother said.

You Wi'yum, cum 'ere, suh, dis minute. Wut dat you

got under dat box?

Young Ben he was a nice young man

Young Rory O'More courted Kathleen Bawn

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