Fugitive Verses

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SONG,
CALLED
THE COUNTRY LADY'S REVEILLIE.

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	FROM early fire wending
	The smoke is ascending,
	And with the clouds blending,
	Awake, awake!
	From green covert creeping
	Wild creatures are peeping,
	Fy! sloth of dull sleeping
	Forsake, forsake!

	The cocks are a-crowing,
	The kine are a-lowing,
	The milk-pail is flowing
	Awake, awake
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	The dew-drops are gleaming,
	And bright eyes are beaming,
	The mist of pale dreaming
	Forsake, forsake!

	Now maidens are bracing,
	And bodices lacing,
	The slender form gracing,
	Awake, awake!
	On slippered toe stealing,
	Thy fair face revealing,
	The curtain's dark sheeling
	Forsake, forsake

About this text
Courtesy of University of California, Davis. General Library. Digital Intitiatives Program.; http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp
http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt567nb8xt&brand=oac4
Title: Fugitive Verses
By:  Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851, creator, British Women Romantic Poets Project
Date: 2001 (issued)
Contributing Institution: University of California, Davis. General Library. Digital Intitiatives Program.; http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp
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