Take It Fightin

"His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth,     His hat pushed from his brow,     His dress best fitted for the South,     I think I see him now;"

"There is a quiet gentleman a-motoring in France     (Oh, dont you hear the honking of a British motor-car?),     Like any quiet gentleman that"

"A fresh sweet-scented beauty     Came tripping down the street;     She was as fair a vision     As you might chance to meet.     A masher rai"

"O bard of fortune, you deem me nought     But a mark for your careless scorn.     For I am the echo-less grave of thought     That is strangled"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"