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And when on board, They gave the word. To foreign climes to go: I rued the moment I was born. That ever I should thus be torn— From my Foil and my Partner Joe,

I did my duty manfully, while o’er the billows rolling; And, night or day could find my way, Blind fold to the main top bowling Thus all the dangers of the main, quicksands, and gales of wind, I brav’d in hopes to ta te again, Those joys I left behind: In climes afar, ’Midst hotest war, Pour,d broadidea on the foe ; In hopes those perlls to relate, As by my side attentive sat, My Poll and my partner Joe,

t length it pleas'd his majesty, to give peace unto the nation, and honest hearts, from foreign parts, Came home for consolsion. Like lightning—for I felt now life; Now free from war’s alarms, I rush’d— and found my friend and wife— Lock’d in each other’s arms; Yet fancy not bors my lot. Tame, like a lubber—No—