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And many message have I brought,
to families I cannot find,
Long for John Goodman's house I've sought
to tell him all’s not far behind.
to families I cannot find,
Long for John Goodman's house I've sought
to tell him all’s not far behind.
And does he live, my father said,
my mother could not stay to speak,
I all along my Jessie eyed,
she sigh’d as though her heart would break
0 yes, he lives, this napkin see,
at parting his young Jessie gave,
He sent it with his love by me,
to shew he yet escapes the grave.
my mother could not stay to speak,
I all along my Jessie eyed,
she sigh’d as though her heart would break
0 yes, he lives, this napkin see,
at parting his young Jessie gave,
He sent it with his love by me,
to shew he yet escapes the grave.
An arrow darting from a bow,
could not more quick the token reach,
The patch from off my face I drew,
and gave my tongue the well-known spa(illegible text)
My Jessie dear, I softly said,
she gaz’d and answer’d with a sigh,
My sister look’d as half afraid,
my mother fainted quite away
could not more quick the token reach,
The patch from off my face I drew,
and gave my tongue the well-known spa(illegible text)
My Jessie dear, I softly said,
she gaz’d and answer’d with a sigh,
My sister look’d as half afraid,
my mother fainted quite away
My Father dancing round his son,
my brother shook my hands away,
My mother said her glass might run,
She car’d not now how soon the day,
my brother shook my hands away,
My mother said her glass might run,
She car’d not now how soon the day,
