©Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
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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 />
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