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The waves were white, and red the morn, In the noisy hour when I was born; And the whale it whistled, the porpoise roll'd,         And the dolphins bar'd their backs of gold: And never was heard such an outcry wild, As welcom'd to life the ocean child. I have liv'd since then in calm and strife, Full fifty summers a rover's life, With wealth to spend and a power to range, But never sought or sigh'd for change, And death, whenever it comes to me, Shall come on the wild unbounded sea.

And death, &c.

K I T T Y J O N E S.

Nor long ago, a simple lad, from Yorkshire I did roam, And over since I've sadly rued the day I left my home, When in my native village, --oh, I always were so gay For on the Sunday I made love,--and in the we            made hay. But Fortune, who's a fickle jade, at length did on it frown, A servant maid whom I had lov'd, went up to Lunnun town; So from that time upon my bed I could not rest upon, Till I set off for Lunnun town, in search of Kitty Jon

Ri tooral, &c.

So on the Lunnun coach at last, I went and took my            seat, And pleasant folks of every sort to join me there and meet, A flashy chap who sat by me, soon saw I was a clown, And very kindly said he'd put me fly to Lunnun town.