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92 FAUST<br />

So, so-hoigh-ho-<br />

'Tis ru<strong>de</strong> of you to use me so_'<br />

All into the set advance,<br />

Right they dance, and left they dance­<br />

Gowns and ribands how they fling,<br />

Flying with the flying ring;<br />

They grew red, and faint, and warm,<br />

And rested, sinking, arm in arm,<br />

Slow, slow, heigh-ho,<br />

Tired in elbow, foot, and toe!<br />

, And do not make so free,' she said;<br />

, I fear that you may never wed;<br />

Men are cruel '-and he prest<br />

The mai<strong>de</strong>n to his beating breast.<br />

Hark! again, the sounds of glee<br />

Swelling from the lin<strong>de</strong>n tree.<br />

'Tis merry, 'tis merry-heigh-ho, heigh-ho,<br />

Blithe goes the fiddle-bow!<br />

OLD PE.A.S~T. This, doctor, is so kind of you,<br />

A man of rank and learning too;<br />

\Vho, but yourself, would con<strong>de</strong>scend<br />

Thus ,,;th the poor, the poor man's friend,<br />

To join our sports? In this brown cheer<br />

Accept the pledge we ten<strong>de</strong>r here,<br />

A draught of life may it become<br />

And years on years, oh! may you reach,<br />

As cheerful as these beads of foam,<br />

As countless, too, a. year for each!<br />

FAUST. Blest be the draught restorative!<br />

I pledge you-happy may you live!<br />

(The people collect in. a circle round Mm.<br />

OLD PEiSA~T.<br />

glee,<br />

And share in his festivity:<br />

In this ha.th fortune fairly <strong>de</strong>alt<br />

With him who, in the evil day<br />

Yes! witness thou the poor man's<br />

<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong>

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