Young Ben he was a nice young man,
A carpenter by trade;
And he fell in love with Sally Brown,
That was a lady's maid.
(Faithless Sally Brown)
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I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.Thomas Hood
A man that 's fond precociously of stirring Must be a spoon.
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Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry.
Thomas Hood
For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
Thomas Hood
Straight down the crooked lane, And all round the square.
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His death which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell.
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