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| The Village Coquettes (1836), | 3 |
Round.
Hail to the merry Autumn days, | 7 |
Lucy’s Song.
Love is not a feeling to pass away, | 8 |
Squire Norton’s Song.
That very wise head, old Æsop, said, | 9 |
George Edmunds’ Song.
Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, | 10 |
Rose’s Song.
Some folks who have grown old and sour, | 11 |
Duet (Flam and Rose).
’Tis true I’m caressed by the witty, | 12 |
Squire Norton’s Song.
The child and the old man sat alone, | 13 |
Duet (The Squire and Lucy).
In rich and lofty station shine, | 14 |
Sestet and Chorus.
Turn him from the farm, | 15 |
Quartet.
Hear me, when I swear that the farm is your own, | 17 |
Squire Norton’s Song.
There’s a charm in Spring, | 20 |
Young Benson’s Song.
My fair home is no longer mine, | 21 |
Duet (The Squire and Edmunds).
Listen, though I do not fear you, | 22 |
Lucy’s Song.
How beautiful at even-tide, | 23 |
Chorus.
Join the dance, with step as light, | 23 |
Quintet.
No light bound of stag or timid hare, | 24 |
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| The Lamplighter (1838), | 29 |
Duet (Tom and Betsy).
There comes a new moon twelve times a year, | 31 |
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| The Pickwick Papers (1837), | 35, 41, 47, 51 |
The Ivy Green.
Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, | 36 |
A Christmas Carol.
I care not for Spring, | 42 |
Gabriel Grub’s Song.
Brave lodgings for one, | 48 |
Romance (Sam Weller’s Song).
Bold Turpin vunce, on Hounslow Heath, | 53 |
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| The Examiner (1841), | 57 |
The Fine Old English Gentleman.
I’ll sing you a new ballad, | 59 |
The Quack Doctor’s Proclamation.
An astonishing doctor has just come to town, | 67 |
Subjects for Painters.
To you, Sir Martin, | 73 |
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| The Patrician’s Daughter (1842), | 79 |
Prologue.
No tale of streaming plumes and harness bright, | 81 |
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| The Keepsake (1844), | 87 |
A Word in Season.
They have a superstition in the East, | 89 |
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| The Daily News (1846), | 93 |
The British Lion.
Oh, p’r’aps you may have heard, | 95 |
The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers.
Oh God, who by Thy Prophet’s hand, | 101 |
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| Lines addressed to Mark Lemon (1849), | 107 |
New Song.
Lemon is a little hipped, | 109 |
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| The Lighthouse (1855), | 113 |
Prologue.
A story of those rocks where doom’d ships come, | 115 |
The Song of the Wreck.
The wind blew high, the waters raved, | 119 |
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| The Frozen Deep (1856), | 125 |
Prologue.
One savage footprint on the lonely shore, | 127 |
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| The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856), | 131 |
A Child’s Hymn.
Hear my prayer, O! Heavenly Father, | 133 |
