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... night of all nights in the year . Ah ! to me that inscription is clear : Well I know now I'm perfectly sober , Why no longer they credit me here , - Well I know now that music of Auber , And this Nightingale , kept by one Shear ...
... night of all nights in the year . Ah ! to me that inscription is clear : Well I know now I'm perfectly sober , Why no longer they credit me here , - Well I know now that music of Auber , And this Nightingale , kept by one Shear ...
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... NIGHT If I should die to - night And should come to my you cold corpse and say , Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay— If I should die to - night , And " " you should come in deepest grief and woe- say : " Here's that ten dollars ...
... NIGHT If I should die to - night And should come to my you cold corpse and say , Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay— If I should die to - night , And " " you should come in deepest grief and woe- say : " Here's that ten dollars ...
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... night , Which she held in her pearly teeth . For the sweet , sweet sake of the Human Snake I'd have stood this conduct shady ; But she skipped in the end with an old , old friend , An eminent bearded lady . But , oh , at night , when my ...
... night , Which she held in her pearly teeth . For the sweet , sweet sake of the Human Snake I'd have stood this conduct shady ; But she skipped in the end with an old , old friend , An eminent bearded lady . But , oh , at night , when my ...
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Ahkoond ain't Arcady ARTHUR GUITERMAN BALLAD Barney McGee beautiful birds Bliss blue Bouillabaisse Brown buncombe Casey CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY cold Columbus cried dance dead dear dere DOROTHY PARKER dream drink E. B. WHITE fair G. K. Chesterton Gilpin girl give Gray green hair hand head hear heard heart IRWIN EDMAN J. C. Squire John King kiss lady light verse lips live look lover maid maiden mind Miniver morning mother ne'er never night o'er once play Poems poet poor Potiphar pretty quoth rhyme Robinson rose round SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN sigh sing smile song soul spring stars Stephen Vincent Benét sweet tell thee There's thing thou thought took twas Vincent Millay W. S. GILBERT wife wine wonder word young youth