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'Tis Hard to Give THE HAND WHERE THE HEART CAN NEVER BE, NEW SONGS OUT EVERY WEEK. This Popular Song can always be had at the Poets' Booc. Tho' I mingle in the throng
Of the happy and the gay,
From the mirth of dance and song
I would fain be far away ;
For I love to use no wile,
And can but deem it sin,
That the brow should wear a smile
When the soul is sad within.
Tho' a parent's stern command
Claims obedience from me,
O, 'tis hard to give the hand
Where the heart can never be. I have sighed and suffer'd long,
Yet have never told my grief
In the hope that for my wrong,
Time itself would find relief,
I will own no rebel thought,
But I will not wear the chain,
That for me must still be fraught,
With but misery and pain.
In all else I will be bland,
But in this I must be free,
And I will not give the hand
Where the heart can never be. A LIST OF POPULAR SONGS Always to be had at the POETS' Box. Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon.
British Working Man.
Callum o' Glen.
Child with Three Fathers.
Charge of the Light Brigade.
Charge of our Brave Highlandmen.
Champagne Charlie.
Chap that Married Hannah.
Chap that 's Always on the Beer.
Charlie is My Darling.
Charlie Stewart.
Cheer for the Pilots.
Coal Jock.
Clap it on the Lodger.
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