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A Plover on Guard
O little plover still circling over
Your nest in clover, your house of love,
Sure none dare harm it and none alarm it
While you are keeping your watch above.
Your nest in clover, your house of love,
Sure none dare harm it and none alarm it
While you are keeping your watch above.
'Tis she doth love you and well approve you,
Your little love-bird so grey and sweet;
If hawk and falcon swept down above you,
'Tis she would trust you the twain to meet.
Your little love-bird so grey and sweet;
If hawk and falcon swept down above you,
'Tis she would trust you the twain to meet.
Now let me pass, sir, a harmless lass, sir,
With no designs on your eggs of blue.
I wish your family both health and wealth, sir,
And to be as faithful and kind as you.
With no designs on your eggs of blue.
I wish your family both health and wealth, sir,
And to be as faithful and kind as you.
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But not a shadow steals o'er the meadow
That he will swoop not to drive away;
The bee in clover and Wind the rover
He fears mean ill to his love in grey.
That he will swoop not to drive away;
The bee in clover and Wind the rover
He fears mean ill to his love in grey.
The showers so sunny and sweet as honey
Have power to trouble his anxious breast.
Now might one purchase for love or money
That watchful heart and that pleasant nest!
Have power to trouble his anxious breast.
Now might one purchase for love or money
That watchful heart and that pleasant nest!
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