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2 THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF WATERLOO. YE people at home, who live easy, and free from the riots of war, Let thought take a place in your bosoms, and sigh for the sorrows of war. Ah! lang has the sythe of destruction been sweeping the nations around; But ne'er did it cut with such keenness, as on the great Sib of June.

Bold Britain and France they have long beer contending for who'll have the sway; But brawling may turn into mourning, to think on this terrible day! Ten thousands of good hearted mortals, here fell 'midst the awful platoons, And sung a farewel to their sorrows upon the great 18th of June.

First France, with her ordnary fury, did think the allies to o'erwhelm; But ah! she forget, in the hurry, that Britain did stand at the helm. And what a sad heart, firs, had Bonnie, to tak now, instead of a Crown, A canier frae Brussels to Paris, lamenting the 18th of June.