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 The youth was oerjoyed for he thought
 * 'Twas the form of his beautiful maid.

He gazed on the figure in white
 * Whose nods gave new life to his hopes

His heartthrob with love and delight
 * As he threw up the ladder of ropes;

His charmer hoped down it and then,
 * The happy delusion was o'er!

Girls often meet monkey-like men, B:ut man never woo'd monkey before.

From the window, enjoying the joke,
 * Her father feared danger no more;

And she, by the bustle awoke
 * Soon made her escape at the doorǃ

Come, come to your Rosa 'she said
 * 'Unless you prefer my baboon;

And pray let your next senerade.
 * Take place at the full of the moon,

ye gang to the lea rig,
 * My ain kind dear. O.

An cuddle there fu kindly
 * Wi' me, my kind dearie, O?

At thorny bush and birken tree,
 * We'll daff and never weary, O;

They'll send ill een frae you and me
 * My ain kind dearie, O,