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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan

In Two Volumes. With a Portrait
Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901)

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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The Outcast.
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The Wandering Jew.
  
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VIII. THE WITNESSES.
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The Devil's Case.
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The Ballad of Mary the Mother.
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The New Rome.
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Songs of Empire.
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Thro' the Great City.
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Latter-Day Gospels.
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Land and Sea Songs.
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In the Library.
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Miscellaneous Poems.

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I.

I'll tell you, mates, how she came to sea!
(Heave at the windlass! heave ho! cheerily)
She loved me, and I love she,
For she was the gel for a Sailor!
She hailed from Wapping, her name was Sue,
And she was the daughter of a tailor,—
We parted at last, but without ado
She bought both jacket and breeches blue,
And aboard she came for to join our crew
And live the life of a Sailor!
CHORUS.
Heave at the windlass! yeo heave ho!
Up with the anchor! away we go!
The wind's off the shore, boys,—let it blow,—
Hurrah for the life of a Sailor!
Yeo—ho!

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