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Short Title Star, 1817 
Title Star, The 
Pages 170 
Publisher Butler & Lambdin 
Location RPB Songster Coll SO58873,MH Rdx S42207 
Date 1817 
Place Pittsburgh 
Data Place Rdx 42207 
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Why does azure deck the sky? (fl) 
I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd (fl) 
Far retir'd from noise and smoke (fl)  6-8 
I have parks, I have grounds, I have deer, I have hounds (fl)  8-9 
To a shady retreat fair Eliza I trac'd (fl) 
All in the Downs the fleet lay moor'd (fl)  9-11 
Just like love is yonder rose (fl)  11-12 
I sing the Maid of Lodi (fl)  12-13 
When Steerwell heard me first impart (fl)  13-15 
Tho' my eyes, dearest Anna, to others will stray (fl)  15-16 
Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube (fl)  16-17 
'Twas in that season of the year (fl)  17-18 
One morning very early, one morning in the spring (fl)  19-20 
Their groves o' sweet myrtles let foreign lands reckon (fl)  20-21 
John Anderson, my Joe, John (fl)  21-23 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (fl)  23-25 
Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises (fl)  25-26 
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  26-27 
Drink to her who long (fl)  28-29 
My thoughts delight to wander (fl)  29-30 
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see (fl)  30-31 
Fair Sally, once the village pride (fl)  31-32 
Green were the fields where my forefathers dwelt (fl)  32-34 
Ah! sigh not for love, if you wish not to know (fl)  34 
In the down-hill of life, when I find I'm declining (fl)  35-36 
Rose had been washed, just wash'd in a shower, The (fl)  36-37 
Fly not yet! 'tis just the hour (fl)  37-38 
Said a smile to a tear (fl)  38-39 
Deserted by the waning moon (fl)  39 
Drink to me only with thine eyes (fl)  40 
I have a silent sorrow here (fl)  40-41 
Ah, how sweet it is to love! (fl)  41-42 
Wandered once at break of day (fl)  42-43 
Hard is the fate of him who loves (fl)  43-44 
Like the frail bark, tost in the foamy deep (fl)  45 
O Nancy, wilt thou go with me (fl)  45-46 
Let fame sound the trumpet, and cry, "To the war!" (fl)  47 
Young Henry was as brave a youth (fl)  47-48 
Softly blew the easterm breezes (fl)  48 
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  49-50 
How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain (fl)  50 
Moon had climb'd the highest hill, The (fl)  51-52 
O think on my fate, once I freedom enjoy'd (fl)  52-53 
In storms, when clouds obscure the sky (fl)  53-54 
I have lov'd thee, dearly lov'd thee (fl)  54-55 
From the white blossom'd sloe my dear Chloe requested (fl)  55 
From a flasket of gin, my dear Nancy requested (fl)  55-56 
Oh! why should the girl of my soul be in tears (fl)  56 
Attention pray give, while of hobbies I sing (fl)  65-66 
[I've carried arms through lands afar] (fl)  [68-69]   
My merry gentle people (fl)  69-70 
Let the farmer praise his grounds, and the huntsman praise his hounds (fl)  70-71 
As Murphy Delancy so funny and frisky (fl)  71-73 
When I was a boy in my father's mud edifice (fl)  73-74 
When I was at home, I was merry and frisky (fl)  74-75 
Ye sons of Hibernia, who snug on dry land (fl)  75-80  12 
Glasses sparkle on the board, The (fl)  80-81 
How happy's the soldier who lives on his pay (fl)  81-82 
Mother were dead and sister were married (fl)  82-84 
Oh! in Ireland so frisky, with sweet girls and whiskey (fl)  84-85 
Feyther put me to the school (fl)  86-87 
Adown the green valley there liv'd an old maid (fl)  87-88 
One moon shining night, about two in the morning (fl)  88-91 
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling (fl)  91-92 
King Solomon, that wise projector (fl)  92-93 
Oh! love is the soul of a neat Irishman (fl)  94-95 
O the face of brave Captain Megan (fl)  95-96 
'Twas Pat of Londonderry (fl)  96-97 
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant so jolly (fl)  98-99 
Paddy Shannon, high mounted on his trotting little poney (fl)  99-100 
When I was a lad I had cause to be sad (fl)  100-102  10 
My father was once a great marchant (fl)  103-105 
I was born at home when my mother was out (fl)  105-106 
Young Teddy is an Irish lad (fl)  107 
Our immortal poet's page (fl)  108-111 
Hail to the heroes whose triumphs have brightened (fl)  116-117 
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light (fl)  117-119 
Come, strike the bold anthem, the war dogs are howling (fl)  119-121 
Let patriot pride your patriot valour wake (fl)  121-123 
How blest the life the sailor leads (fl)  123-125 
While Europe's mad powers o'er the ocean are ranging (fl)  125-129  10 
To no monarch, no tyrant in robes will we sing (fl)  129-130 
I'll begin my chronology just at those times, sir (fl)  130-134 
To Liberty's enraptured sight (fl)  135-136 
Sons of the deep! ye spirits brave (fl)  136-137 
Now coil up your nonsense 'bout England's great navy (fl)  137-139 
Rejoice, rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice! (fl)  139-142 
When'er the tyrants of the main (fl)  142-144  11 
Sound, sound the harsh bugle, arouse from your slumbers (fl)  145-147 
Backside Albany stan' Lake Champlain (fl)  148-149 
British long have rul'd the seas, The (fl)  149-150 
Remember the glories of brave Washington (fl)  151 
Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought (fl)  152-156  10 
Our country is our ship, d'ye see (fl)  156-157 
Ye sons of free Columbia (fl)  157-159 
Come, messmates, cheerly lead the night (fl)  159-162 
Our country, our fathers---our firesides and lives (fl)  162-163 
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