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 6 SENTIMENTAL SONGS. BOYS OF SWITZERLAND. OOR cot was sheiter'd by a wood, And near a lake's green margin stood; A mountain bleak hekind t frown'd, Whose top the snow in summer crewn'd. But lumtures rich and warm to boot, Lay smiling at the mountain's foot; There first ;rye frolick'd hand in hand, Two infant boys of Switzerland. When scarcely old enoogh to know The meaning of a tale of' we, That father in his grave lay cold; That livelihoods were hard to get, And we too young to labor yet; And tears within her oyes did stand, For her two boys of Switzerland. But on for mother, a8 we grew, We work'd as much as boys could do Our. daily gains to her we But ah! she'!! ne'er receive them moro. For long we watch'd beside her bed, Then sobb'd to see her lie there de&d: And now we wander hand in hand; Two orphan boys of' Switzerland. THE FARMER'S BOY. IWDZZD my slqaple tale is true, A farm my father had, And labor'd hard to make it do, For it was small and bad; And labor too was mother's joy, lqor idle I, the farmer'o boy,
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