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And while with such music re-echoes my dwellings
While harmony still lingers over the grove.
Oh ! if there's a bliss such enjoyment exceUing,
It beams in the smile of contentment and love.
Black-cycd Susan.
As sun^ by Mrs. WOOD, at the Park Theatre.
All in the Downs the fleet lav moor'd.
The streamers waving in the wind,
When black-eyM Susan came on board;
Oh! where shall I mv true love find 1
Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true.
If my sweet \A''Uliam sails among your crew.
WiUiam, who high upon the yard,
Rock'd by the billows lo and fro.
Soon as her well-known A ilce he heard.
He siglvd, and cast his ^.\ ^s below:
The cord slides swiftlv thr T In dew V^ La b
And quick as lightning, on tu iVck In i'-Morlb.
So the sweet lark, hii^h poi^ t VN t\i
Shuts close his pinions to hi.s l^^vs.\
Perchance his mate's shrill VOKV^. U \.e.u
And drops, at once, into her i\\ t
The noblest captain in the British i\>^*
Might envy William's Ups, those kisoes s\^i%^
Oh ! Susan, Susan, lovely dear,
My vows shall ever true remain ;
Let me kiss off that falling tear,
Wc only part to meet again;
Change as ye list, ye winds, my heart shaU be
The faithful compass that still points to thee.