Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems by the late Thomas Haynes Bayly; Edited by his Widow. With A Memoir of the Author. In Two Volumes |
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LOVE IN A COTTAGE FOR ME. |
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LOVE IN A COTTAGE FOR ME.
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Oh, the air of a city with poor little LoveI'm certain will never agree.
He'll sigh for the hill and the vale and the grove;
So Love in a cottage for me!
He'll pine if confined to a square or a street,
And look round for an ever-green tree;
Then give me, oh give me a rural retreat,
Oh Love in a cottage for me!
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I very much fear Love loses in townIn heart what he gains in esprit;
And the form that he doats upon most is his own,
So Love in a cottage for me!
I'll rove with my Love on the path by the lake,
On the sands that are wash'd by the sea;
And I give up all else in the world for his sake,
So Love in a cottage for me!
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