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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GRENADIER.
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Cries William, when just come from sea,“Does any one know my Annette?
Oh, say, is she faithful to me,
Alas, it is long since we met!”
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“We all know her very well here,
She has red lips and bonny black eyes;
And she lives with her own Granny dear,”
“Grenadier! did you say? did you say Grenadier?”
“Yes, yes,” the old gossip replies,
“She lives with her old Granny dear, O dear!”
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Annette flew to welcome him home,But he turn'd from the maid with disdain:
“False girl, I suppose you are come
To jeer me, and laugh at my pain;
Since scandal hath blotted your name,
I deem you unworthy a tear,
I've been told by an elderly dame,
That you live with your own Grenadier.”
“Grenadier! did you say Grenadier?”
“Yes, I'm told by an elderly dame,
That you live with your own Grenadier, O dear!”
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Quoth pretty Annette, “Do you dare,To call me inconstant and frail?
Beware, Master William, beware,
How you trump up an old woman's tale!
'Tis true, when such stories are told,
We should not believe half that we hear,
Yet I own that my Granny is old,
So I live with my own Granny dear.”
“Granny dear! did you say? did you say Granny dear?”
“Yes, I own that my Granny is old,
So I live with my old Granny dear, my dear!
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