Drowned mariner, or, The lowlands of Holland hath twin'd my love & me/Absent Jockey

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ABSENT JOCKEY.

MY Jockey is fled from the plain,
and left me in sorrow to mourn,
Was ever so cruel a swain?
ah! when will the rover return!

No longer be pipes on his reed,
no longer his praises I’ll tell,
yet dull is the banks of the Tweed,
since Jockey has bid them farewel.


His crook he has broken in twain,
his sheep and his lambkins now stray,
they bleet for their master in vain,
and carefully wander away;
then haste thou playsome shepherd so free,
and call the poor flocks to their home,
O be to them kinder than he
who caus’d the poor wand’rers to roam.


Each virgin so happy and gay,
attend to the words I impart,
Be careful and cautious I pray
how you give a young shepherd your heart,
though Jockey was rural and neat,
to me was most loving and kind,
his manners were gentle and sweet,
till cruelty grew m his mind.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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