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Part I. And he had seen Caernarvon's towers,

And well he knew the spire of Sarum;

And he had been where Lincoln bell

Flings o'er the fen its ponderous knell,

Its far-renowned alarum!

At Doncaster, at York, and Leeds,

And merry Carlisle had he been;

And all along the Lowlands fair,

All through the bonny shire of Ayr—

And far as Aberdeen.

And he had been at Inverness;

And Peter, by the mountain rills,

Had danced his round with Highland lasses;

And he had lain beside his asses

On lofty Cheviot Hills: