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A new Song called
THE SWEET SILVER LIGHT OF
THE MOON.
day about the beginning of june
Near a jessamine shade I spied a fair maid
and she sadly complaint to the moon»
Roll on gentle moon guide a traveller’s way
where the nightengale singing for june
And never again shall my love & 1 stray by
the sweet silver light of the moon
Like a hart on the mountain my lover was
brave so handsome genteel & so tall
He spoke so sincere that I loved him quite
dear O Edmd. thy eqnal was never _
For ne’r again shall my bosome enjoy with
my Edmd.I mean tobesoon =
So lovers may weep o’er the grave where we
sleep by the sweet silver light of the moon
On ehe banks of the shanon as often we str'd
where the lamkin so sporting did play
Where the blackb'rd & trush jointheir notes.
in each bush when medows was gay
When he show d methe ring and appointed
the «lay that wedded we were to be soon
by the sweet sil’ light of the moon
In the dead of the night when the stars they
shon bright I think I beheld a sweet form
1 reached to embrace that i found it a dream
a whither my love had been born |
The wilowsi wear it shall mark my dispare
-bewayling my lovers sad doom
O welcome cold death it shall end all my
care by the sweet &c.
On his grave? wilsit until day light appears
I will weep for my herve so brave
Vill embrace the cold sod & i will wet with
my tears the days that blooms o’er
is cut down like a rose in full bloom
He has now fell asleep and left his jane fo"
to weep by the sweet silver e
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