. [A composite music volume containing different issues of Thomson's octavo] collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott ...: united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. SS^^S s s J ffe#s£g?^3Eg ^i youth ful was nvy Lyre. pg£§iteg feVLLU-UlL^ tilT Vol: H. 43 THE THREE CAPTAINS. WITH A NEW SONG WRITTEN FOR THIS WORK, BY WILLIAM SMYTH, ESQ.—1821. And if from me a song you choose,And if my humble careless MuseMust not so slight a boon refuse, While pleasure rules the hour,—My theme is love,—my theme is wine,—Oh ! give me but my wonted fire,The frolic mirth that once
. [A composite music volume containing different issues of Thomson's octavo] collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott ...: united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. SS^^S s s J ffe#s£g?^3Eg ^i youth ful was nvy Lyre. pg£§iteg feVLLU-UlL^ tilT Vol: H. 43 THE THREE CAPTAINS. WITH A NEW SONG WRITTEN FOR THIS WORK, BY WILLIAM SMYTH, ESQ.—1821. And if from me a song you choose,And if my humble careless MuseMust not so slight a boon refuse, While pleasure rules the hour,—My theme is love,—my theme is wine,—Oh ! give me but my wonted fire,The frolic mirth that once was mine, When youthful was my lyre. O happy years ! when visions bright,Dear visions, dancd before my sight;Unheeded were the chimes of night,While sparkling wine went still at social evenings close,When cares not rudely intervene,Life takes the colours of the rose,As thro my nectar seen. And gone too, gone, the happy years,When love, with all its hopes and all its raptures, sighs, and tears, My ardent soul possest :Forever gone ; and welcome nowThe milder hour, the softer ray,The star that shines on evenings brow, When set the burning day. But thou gay Youth, with jocund air,Tho I no more the revels share,O t
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