The golden treasury of American songs and lyrics . ieiitBook unfold! My steps are nightly driven,By the fever in my breast,To hear from thy lattice breathed The word that shall give me the door of thy heart, And open thy chamber door,And my kisses shall teach thy lipsThe love that shall fade no moreTill the sun grows cold,And the stars are old^And the leaves of the fudgmentBook unfold ! B. Taylor. 86. BAYARD TAYLOR SKIPPER IRESONS RIDE. ^^ipptt 3ife0on*0 (gibe. f~\ F all the rides since the birth of time,Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleiuss Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendars
The golden treasury of American songs and lyrics . ieiitBook unfold! My steps are nightly driven,By the fever in my breast,To hear from thy lattice breathed The word that shall give me the door of thy heart, And open thy chamber door,And my kisses shall teach thy lipsThe love that shall fade no moreTill the sun grows cold,And the stars are old^And the leaves of the fudgmentBook unfold ! B. Taylor. 86. BAYARD TAYLOR SKIPPER IRESONS RIDE. ^^ipptt 3ife0on*0 (gibe. f~\ F all the rides since the birth of time,Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleiuss Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendars horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islams prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Iresons, out from Marblehead!Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart,Tarred and feathered and carried in a cartBy the women of Marblehead! Body of turkey, head of owl,Wings a-droop like a rained-on fowl,Feathered and ruffled in every part,Skipper Ireson stood in the of women, old and young,Strong of muscle, and glib of and pulled up the rocky and singing the shrill refrain:* Heres Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt,Torrd an futherrd an corrd in a corrtBy the women o Morbleead ! 87 AMERICAN SONGS AND LYRICS. Wrinkled scolds with hands on hips, Girls in bloom of cheek and lips, Wild-eyed, free-limbed, such as chase Bacchus round some antique vase, B
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