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 Huzza! for the Lads of the land,

The good wooden walls of the Iſland,

Devil or Don,—Let'em come on,

But, how would they come off at the Iſland?

I don't wonder much,

That the French and the Dutch,

Have ſince been often tempted to try land,

And I wonder much leſs,

They have met no ſucceſs,

For why ſhould we give up our Iſland!

On! 'tis a wonderful Iſland,

All of them long for the Iſland.

Hold a bit there, (let'em)—Fake fire and air,

But we'll have the Sea and the Iſland.

Then, ſince and ,

Hitherto kept tune.

In each ſaying, This ſhall be my land,

Should the Army of England,

Or all they could bring, land,

We'd ſhow them ſome play for the Iſland;

We'd fight for our right to the Iſland,

We'd give them enough of the Iſland,

Frenchmen ſhould juſt—Bite at our duſt,

But not a bit more of the Iſland.

E fair, who ſhine thro' Britain's Iſle,

And triumph o'er the heart,

For Once attentive be a while

to what I ſhall impart.