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XX] "And am I to do the lamenting? And who for, if you please?"

She played the air once or twice through, first in quick, and finally in slow, time; and then gave us the whole song with as much graceful ease as if she had been familiar with it all her life:—

"He stept so lightly to the land,
 * All in his manly pride:

He kissed her cheek, he pressed her hand,
 * Yet still she glanced aside.

'Too gay he seems! she darkly dreams,
 * 'Too gallant and too gay

To think of me——poor simple me——
 * When he is far away!'

' I bring my Love this goodly pearl
 * Across the seas,' he said:

'A gem to deck the dearest girl
 * That ever sailor wed!'

She clasps it tight: her eyes are bright:
 * Her throbbing heart would say

'He thought of me——he thought of me——
 * When he was far away!'

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