Miscellaneous plays / by Joanna Baillie.

  • Joanna Baillie
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Miscellaneous plays / by Joanna Baillie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 Fold their weary arms to Jleep^ Come^ let us our vigil keep* Fellows., join^ and never fear; Te who would he happy^ bear. With the fober and the meek^ Lighter files the pafiing week P In his dwelling warm andfieek. Brighter fmiles the rich mards cheek f Wifer things 77iay wife men fay., But we are wiferfar than they* Come, light fpirits, light and free, Wifeft they who foolifo be. He who hammers at the pot. He who brews for every ft. He who made 7ny hofe and coat. Is a better man I wot; Tet were we forndd, events declare. He to work and I to wear* Mifirefs of the mifiy fhroud, O, lovely moon ! come from thy cloud* When thm derlookfi the ocean's brine, Ourfelves we view in foods of wine* ^ Our conjiancy refembles thine / Like thee in borrow'd robes we fhine ; Then let us, in thy kindred light, Still wake, the rulers of the night*