Sword of Jehovah, swing    O’er the world’s ravening,    Wide on the tempest’s wing,    Swing far! Swing free!    Where the mailed hand is set,    Braced to the bayonet,    Bloody and warm and…

    Sherry’s not in saddle,    Sherry’s not in saddle,    Zip-zip-zip! Zip-zip-zip!    Rat-tat-tat! Rat-tat-tat!    Boys in blue skedaddle,    Boys in blue skedaddle,    Zip-zip-zip! Zip-zip-zip!    Rat-tat-tat! Rat-tat-tat!    Sherry’s not in saddle,    Sherry’s not in saddle,    The Southron gray    Is…

    See, the field of battle gleams    Yonward past the tented streams,    There the foe is camping;    By the thirst-assuaging rill,    From the copse behind the hill    Hear his war-steeds champing….

    Adieu to France! Land of the Brave, farewell!    Sleep sweetly there, thy sons will watch by thee,    High as thy hills their burning blood will swell,    To leave…

   MAIDEN.     O my gallant Captain, whither and away?    Know’st thou Jersey Pirates smuggle in the bay?    Won’t you take me with you for a little fly?    If the…

  JOCK.     O’er the deep wi’ me, lassie,    Will you, will you?    Sail the sounding sea, lassie,    Will you, will you?    Where the Sacramento flows,    ‘Twixt the peaks of sifted snows,    Past…

    Ye Parsons, desirous all sinners to save,    And to make each a prig or a prude,    If two thousand long years have not made us behave,    It is…

    Home! Home!    Man may roam    While the blood of life is brimming,    While the head’s with glory swimming;    But, when Love and Life are over,    Bring him to the village…

    Gif a lassie spurn a laddie    Wi’ her needless Nays,    Thraves will pet the hapless plaidie    Wi’ their loving ways;    So if Kirsty blaw him cauldly    As a winter day,    Bess…

    Fare thee well, O Love of Woman!    Lip of Beauty, fare thee well!    Thy soft heart, divinely human,    Holds me by a magic spell.    All that grieves me now…