The Shepherdess.

"Here's Uncle Jujuba,         Who has a sweet tooth;     He used to eat sugar-         Cane oft in his youth,     In South Carolina,"

"Right about, left about,         Halt and stand at ease!     Shoulder arms, attention,         Steady, if you please.     Order arms, present"

"There was a grand coachman,         Who drove the Lord Mayor;     And never drove less than         A carriage and pair.     He wore a red wa"

"Mollie's frock is crimson,         Her petticoat's of lace;     Mollie's hair is golden,         And curls about her face.     Mollie's frien"

"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"