Dramatic Pictures English: Rispetti Sonnets and Other Verses (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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When first I thought o' listin' I moind the sergeant said,
'To don the red coat is the way to fetch the British maid;'
By George ! I've found it downroight true, in every place I've been -

In Indiar and in Burmar, an' Jamaicar, fur the Queen.

Where yeller fever waits for you, an' snappin' werry woide, What would the British soldier do wi' no gal by his soide To cheer he, an' a Creel* may be a warm an' tidy bit,

An' a fair Mullater I knew onct was a charmin' gal and fit.

A roight-down 'appy gal was she, and purty, too, I'm dem! An' I on'y wish I 'ad her 'ere, to show longsoide o' them As often thinks theirselves so 'igh, and thinks a soldier low- Aside my gay Mullater gal they'd look uncommon slow!

She fetched I, I can tell 'ee; an' onct I tried a song,

To let my mates know 'ow I faredf when on my walks so long. A purty song, they said it was-I 'most forget it now-

But Dick O'Dowd went jawring J so as got me in a row!
* Creole, of course, he means. Fared-felt.

X Jawing, no notion of 'jarring.'

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