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More bright the figures float in air,
With every drop I drain,
And that I think a reason fair,
To fill ray glass again.
And that I think, &c.
My muse, whene'er her wings are dry,
No frolic flights will take,
But o'er the bowl she'll dip and fly,
Like swallows round a lake.
Then if the nymph must have her share.
Before she'll bless her swain,
Why that I think a reason fair,
To fill my glass again.
Why that I think, Sec.
I've beat each haunt with game in view.
Run every pleasure down,
Drove fashion's airy circle through,
And lived with all the town ;
To me there's nothing new or rare.
Till wine deceives my brain,
And that I think a reason fair,
To fill my glass again.
And that I think, See.
Now manv a lad I lik'd is dead,
And many a lass grown old ;
And as the lesson strikes my head,
My weary heart grows cold.
But wine a while holds off despair,
Nay bids a hope retrial i,
And that I think a reason fair, .
To. fill my gias.i again.
And that I think. &c.
More bright the figures float in air,
With every drop I drain,
And that I think a reason fair,
To fill ray glass again.
And that I think, &c.
My muse, whene'er her wings are dry,
No frolic flights will take,
But o'er the bowl she'll dip and fly,
Like swallows round a lake.
Then if the nymph must have her share.
Before she'll bless her swain,
Why that I think a reason fair,
To fill my glass again.
Why that I think, Sec.
I've beat each haunt with game in view.
Run every pleasure down,
Drove fashion's airy circle through,
And lived with all the town ;
To me there's nothing new or rare.
Till wine deceives my brain,
And that I think a reason fair,
To fill my glass again.
And that I think, See.
Now manv a lad I lik'd is dead,
And many a lass grown old ;
And as the lesson strikes my head,
My weary heart grows cold.
But wine a while holds off despair,
Nay bids a hope retrial i,
And that I think a reason fair, .
To. fill my gias.i again.
And that I think. &c.
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/90480519 |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.5(2) |
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| Description | Containing Oliver's new selection of comic songs; or, Momus's budget, etc. and Oliver's choice selection of comic songs and The Shamrock, or, The Hibernian songster and The sky-lark, being a choice selection of the most favourite songs etc. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.5(1-4) |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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