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&F CHOICE SONGS. 277
But fweeter the language of love
Breath'd forth by the light of the moon.
Slow rolls the channels of day,
Unwilling to grant me my boon j
Away, deareft funfhine, away.
Give place to the light of the moon.
The nightingale warbles her lay.
Enlivens the gloom \\'ith her Cong,
And glad at the abfence of day,
Invites the pale light of the moon.
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The Oyfter Girl.
THERE was a clever comely girl
Juft come to town from Glo'fter,
And (he did get her livelihood
By crying Milton oyfters.
And (lie did get her livelihood, &c«
She carried a bafltet under her arm,
In the genteelefl polture,
And every day and evVy night
Cry'd; Buy my Milton oyfterS.
It happened on a certain day,
As going thro' the cloyilers.
She met a Lord fo fine and gay
Would buy her Milton oyfters.
He faid, young damfel, go with niep
Indeed I'm no impoftor,
feut (he kept crying in his ear,
Gome buy my Milton oyfters.
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