Bibliography - National Songster, 1808

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Short Title National Songster, 1808 
Title National Songster, The 
Pages 225 
Publisher Desilver, Robert 
Location MWA/AoA 
Date 1808 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place AoA S15690 
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While Europe's mad powers o'er creation are raging (fl)  1-5  10 
Arouse freedom's sons, 'tis your country that calls (fl)  5-6 
Come, strike the bold anthem, the war-dogs are howling (fl)  7-8 
When proud Rome of old, her dread eagle unfurl'd (fl)  8-9 
In the still hour of nature, when mankind repose (fl)  9-11  14 
To liberty's enraptured sight (fl)  12-13 
When tyranny's scourge, and oppression's chill blast (fl)  13-14 
When the praise of the Rangers, was sounded by fame (fl)  15-16 
When first from the east, bursts the bright god of day (fl)  16-17 
When rushing, the foes of his country to meet (fl)  17-18 
Immortals one day, on ambrosia had din'd, The (fl)  18-19 
Columbians to remotest time (fl)  20-21 
Allur'd by the wealth, which Columbia possess'd (fl)  21-22 
Though the Masons declare (fl)  22-23 
Mulrooney's my name, I'm a Mulrooney's boy (fl)  23-24 
Ye children of pleasure, come hither and see (fl)  24-25 
Oh! Say, from thy bosom why heaves the soft sigh (fl)  25-26 
Sweet as the balmy rose just blown (fl)  26 
Hail great republic of the world (fl)  27 
In the wild wood will I range (fl)  28 
Och! Dismal and dark was the day, to be sure (fl)  28-30 
Now crimson sinks the setting sun (fl)  30 
Fair Geraldine each charm of spring possest (fl)  30 
We three, adventurers be (fl)  31 
Aresqui! Aresqui! (fl)  31 
See the cautious warrior creeping! (fl)  32 
When the midnight of absence the day scene pervading (fl)  32-33 
Young Edward through many a distant place (fl)  33-34 
Captain Smith is a man of might (fl)  34-35 
Freedom, on the western shore (fl)  35-36 
While around the festive board (fl)  36-39 
Beside a small stream, where grows many a willow (fl)  39 
Giles Scroggins courted Molly Brown (fl)  39-41 
I have parks, I have grounds, I have deer, I have hounds (fl)  41 
When our sky was illum'd by freedom's bright dawn (fl)  42-43 
In the dead of the night, when with labor opprest (fl)  43-44 
How sweet in the woodlands, with fleet hound and horn (fl)  44 
My love's a vessel trim and gay (fl)  45-46 
Brother Nathan's nation mad (fl)  46-47 
Adieu, adieu my only life (fl)  47 
Gloomy night before us flies, The (fl)  47-50  14 
Honest tar, and fresh from sea, An (fl)  50-51 
When dry first, a droll little creature (fl)  51-52 
I sigh for a maid, and a sweet pretty maid (fl)  52-53 
We tars are all for fun and glee (fl)  53-55  15 
Oft through trackless desarts straying (fl)  55-56 
When William first woo'd I said yes to the swain (fl)  56-57 
O pity! If thy holy tear (fl)  57-58 
Once more, my dear Mary, the circling sun (fl)  58-60 
Hail! Liberty supreme delight (fl)  60-61 
Hark! Through the gloom, an awful cry (fl)  61-62 
Yur pardon kind gentlefwok pray (fl)  63-65 
Bleak wint'ry blasts, relentless rain (fl)  65-66 
Strew, virgins the cypress o'er Washington's bier (fl)  66 
Hush'd by every joyful sound! (fl)  67-68 
Droop not Columbia, Heaven is just (fl)  68 
Once more, fellow-freemen, we've met on the day (fl)  69-70 
In the garden of love, like the garden of Flora (fl)  70 
I'm a Jew you may tell py my peard and my proge [sic] (fl)  71 
Though tender and young, yet my eye-sight is gone (fl)  72 
Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? (fl)  73-74 
As I stray'd o'er a common, on Cork's rugged border (fl)  74-76 
Ah! Tell me ye swains, have you seen my Pastora (fl)  76-77 
Twins of Latona, so kind to my boon, The (fl)  78 
'Twas in the ev'ning of a wintry day (fl)  78-79 
Columbia! Columbia! To glory arise (fl)  79-81 
O Logie of Buchan, O Logie the Laird (fl)  81-82 
Glasses sparkle on the board, The (fl)  82-83 
When at night the village swains (fl)  83-84 
When tutor'd by Mother, she oftentimes said (fl)  84-85 
To a shady retreat, fair Eliza I trac'd (fl)  85-86 
Stay, sweet enchanter of the grove (fl)  86 
Bright Phoebus has mounted the chariot of day (fl)  87 
Ere around the huge oak that o'ershadows yon mill (fl)  87-88 
Body may in simple way, A (fl)  88 
Charming maid of Lodi, The (fl)  89 
Last night the dogs did bark (fl)  90 
Tom Tackle was noble, was true to his word (fl)  91-92 
He was fam'd for deeds of arms (fl)  92-93 
Oh Lady fair, where art thou roamimg (fl)  93-94  10 
Tell her I'll love her, while the clouds drop rain (fl)  94-95 
'Twas near a thicket's calm retreat (fl)  95-96 
Oh! see that form that faintly gleams (fl)  96 
O'er barren hills and flow'ry dales (fl)  96-97 
Ye sons of Columbia the trumpet of fame (fl)  97-98 
Whilst wars reeking horrors from Europe's dy'd plain (fl)  98-99 
Mother were dead and sister were married (fl)  99-100 
Hail Columbia! happy land! (fl)  101-102 
See peace appears like the bright beam of day (fl)  102-103 
Hush every breeze, let nothing move (fl)  103-104 
Over the mountain, and over the moor (fl)  104-105 
Down in the valley the sun setting clearly (fl)  105 
Says I, to dear Laura, come sit down by me (fl)  106 
Poor helpless wanderer, the wide world before me (fl)  106-107 
Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises (fl)  107-108 
On that dear spot where I my love confess'd (fl)  108 
When she smiles, Oh I think of the heav'ns warm ray (fl)  109 
On each fifth day, of each fifth month (fl)  109-110 
Ah! who is that, Ah! who is that, whose thrilling tones (fl)  110-111 
Wreath you wove, wreath you wove, The (fl)  111 
I wander'd once at break of day (fl)  112 
Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps [sic] (fl)  113 
Night was blus'tring, cold and wet (fl)  113-114 
Oh have you not heard of Kate Kearney (fl)  114-115 
Oh! yes, I have seen this Kate Kearney (fl)  115 
To the grove, as fair Anna her steps were inclining (fl)  116 
My father was once a great marchant (fl)  117-118 
Just like love is yonder rose (fl)  118-119 
Should I e'er brave the foaming seas (fl)  119-120 
Why does azure deck the sky? (fl)  120-121 
When freshly blows the northern gale (fl)  121-122 
Parson who had the remarkable foible, A (fl)  122-124  12 
I'm a soldier, as all of you know (fl)  124-125 
Major M'Pherson heav'd a sigh (fl)  125-126 
Oh! a petticoat honey's an Irishman's joy (fl)  126-127 
Blacksmith, you'll own, is so clever, A (fl)  127-128 
'Twas one day at Wapping, his dangers o'er hauling (fl)  128-130 
Oh wander no more from me my love (fl)  130-131 
Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn (fl)  131-132 
Mayhap you have heard that as dear as their lives (fl)  133-134 
Deep in a vale a Cottage stood, oft sought by trav'lers weary (fl)  134-135 
Hail Independence, hail! (fl)  136-138 
Here, full of scars, lies poor Hal Brazen (fl)  138-139 
Ods-blood! what a time for a seaman to skulk (fl)  139-140 
When the Hollow Drum has beat to bed (fl)  140-141 
Fav'rites of fortune their treasures may boast, The (fl)  141-142 
Oh! Why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Gray (fl)  142 
Dusky night rides down the sky, The (fl)  142-143 
Oh! think on my fate, once I freedom enjoy'd (fl)  144 
Tom Starboard was a lover true (fl)  144-145 
As old Goody Jenkins was snoring away (fl)  145-147 
Ye chobbers, underwriters, ye tribe of pen and ink (fl)  148-149 
Let the farmer praise his grounds (fl)  149-151  10 
My name d' ye see's Tom Tough, I've seed a little sarvice (fl)  152-153 
My mam is no more, and my dad's in his grave (fl)  153-154 
At the dead of the night, when by whiskey inspir'd (fl)  154 
When wild war's deadly blast was blawn (fl)  155-157 
Come muster, my lads, your mechanical tools (fl)  157-159 
See! the conquering Hero comes (fl)  159 
Softly waft ye southern breezes (fl)  160 
Trees seem'd to fade, as yon dear spot I'm viewing, The (fl)  160-161 
Let not rage thy bosom firing (fl)  161 
When America first, at Heaven's command (fl)  162-163 
Contented I am, and contented I'll be (fl)  163-165  11 
Whilst in peaceful quarters lying (fl)  165-168  11 
I'm a comical fellow, I tell you no lie (fl)  168-170 
Stay, lady---stay for mercy's sake (fl)  170-171  10 
Soft zephyr, on thy balmy wing (fl)  171-172 
Say, have you seen my Arrabell? (fl)  172 
Blithe Sandy is a bonny boy (fl)  173 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (fl)  174-175 
For me my fair a wreath has wove (fl)  175 
Rebecca was the fairest maid (fl)  176-177 
Dear is my little native vale (fl)  177 
Oh! Listen, listen to the voice of love (fl)  178 
What virgin, or shepherd, in valley or grove (fl)  178-179 
Come on my Hearts of Temper'd Steel (fl)  179-180 
What Beauties does Flora disclose? (fl)  180-181 
When British troops first landed here (fl)  182-183 
When shall we three meet again? (fl)  183 
I'ze a Yorkshireman just come to town (fl)  184-186 
Ye sons of old Vulcan, O think on the fate (fl)  186-188 
Begone dull care, I pr'ythee begone from me (fl)  188 
From the 'prentice I sing, the whole craft to the king (fl)  191-192  10 
Tho' my voice can't enchant like the Syrens of old (fl)  193 
Fair Charity wou'd not above be confin'd (fl)  194 
You Cowans all, who fain would know (fl)  195-196 
Adieu, a heart-warm, fond adieu (fl)  196-198 
Advance each true brother, my song now attend (fl)  198-199 
Mason's daughter fair and young, A (fl)  199-200 
Arise and blow thy trumpet, Fame (fl)  200-201 
As poverty late, in a fit of despair (fl)  201-202 
Divine Urania, virgin pure! (fl)  202-203 
Come, are you prepar'd (fl)  203 
Hail, Masonry divine! (fl)  204 
Hail, Masonry,,thou Craft divine! (fl)  204-206 
How happy a Mason, whose bosom still flows (fl)  206 
No sect in the world can with Masons compare (fl)  207-2-8 
Of your hearts to take care, now, ladies, prepare (fl)  208 
On a whimsical frolic, fair Venus (fl)  209 
On, on, my dear brethren, pursue your great lecture (fl)  209-210 
Bright Mesourania, source of light (fl)  210-212  10 
Come let us prepare (fl)  212-213 
When orient Wisdom beam'd serene (fl)  214-215 
Right worshipful master, and worshipful wardens (fl)  215 
By mason's art the aspiring dome (fl)  216 
To Heaven's high Architect all praise (fl)  216 
"Let there be light!" the Almighty spoke (fl)  216-217 
Hail, Masonry! thou sacred art (fl)  217-218 
Let Masonry from pole to pole (fl)  218-219 
Come, ye Masons, hither bring (fl)  219-220 
Sun's a Freemason, he works all the day (fl)  220-221 
Behold a cloud break, and Urania descends (fl)  221-222 
When my divine Althaea's charms (fl)  222-223 
Lightly o'er the village green (fl)  223-224 
King Solomon, that wise projector (fl)  224-225 
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