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3 And well know the strain which the corn-reapers sang.

Then p ged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore; From my home and my weeping friends never part; My little ones kissed me a hundred times o'er, And my wife sobb d aloud in the fulness of heart. Stay stay with us t thou s weary and worn And f in was the wa soldier to say; But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, And the volos in my dreaming ear melted away.

JOHNNY BLUSTER'S WIFE.

Johnsy Slu t r dwalt on w d, The place they it B d letony; Johnny was a joke gude None could weild a place like Johnny, Johnny's wife, And Si a wife a Johnny had, I wa n g button for her.

Johnny was once half in love, His fancy was by beauty haunted,