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None stops the dreadful leak ! To cling to slippery shrouds, Each breathless german crowds, As she lay, Till the day, In the bay of Biscay, O!
At length the wish'd for morrow Broke through the hazy sky; Absorb'd in silent sorrow, Each heav'd a bitter sigh; The dismal wreck to view Strck horror to the crew, As she lay, On that day, In the Bay of Biscay, O !
Her yielding timbers sever, Her pitchy seams are rent, When Heaven, all bounteous ever, Its boundlese mercy sent : A sail in sight appears, We hail her with three cheers ! Now we sail, With the gale, From the Bay of Biscay,
A FAMOUS MAN IS ROBIN HOOD.
A famons man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singers' joy; But Scotland has a thief as good, She has her bold Rob Roy ! A dauntless heart M'Gregor shows And wond'rous length and strength of arm He long was quell'd his highland foes, And kept his friends from harm. A famous man, &s
His darling mood protects hit still, For 'tis the robber's simple plan ; That they should take who have the wild, And they should keep-who ca
