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…

Ever to be    Land of the free,    Hold up your banner of light to the eye,    High! High!    Let its folds fly,    Blessing the earth and rejoicing the sky.     Ever…

 ‘Tis here we invade the valley,    Away from the realms of breath,    And, in most successful sally,    We enter the gates of death;    So, stand in the last line…

 Foiled on the field with his dead boys around him,    All waiting for Earth to recover her own,    Fortune hath missed him, but Glory hath found him,    While…

Inscribed to Dennis F. Burke, last Commander of the Irish Brigade, at Gettysburg.     THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH.     “Why come ye to this mountain, lads,    In…