“ Should any thought of them come o'er your mind,
⁠Think, only. should the day be won,
⁠How ’twill cheer
⁠The heart, to hear
⁠That their old companion—he was one.
Or, my lad, if you a mistress kind
⁠Have left on shore,—some pretty girl and true,
Who many a night doth listen to the wind,
⁠And sigh to think how it may fare with you ”

“ One Robert Store, and Richard Balfour,
⁠our mate he was young Thomas Taylor,
One Henry Mead and Archibald Kincaid,
⁠with William Campbell that famous young sailor.
With a few swivel guns, and three hundred tons,
⁠was the burden our good ship did carry,
Our crew twenty five as brave men as e'er alive,
⁠and made up of young men so merry ”

“ With sport, love, and wine, fickle fortune defy,
dull wisdom all happiness sours ;
Since life is no more than a passage at best,
let’s strew the way over with flow’rs.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ Then on the spring tide our vessel did ride,
⁠and all the whole time it was snowing.
The gale did increase and then you may guess,
⁠what was our most sad situation,
Death did appear when that we drew near
⁠to the coast of the Irish nation. ”

“ How constant he’d be, and how faithful he’d prove;
Until this loving creature began to relent,
And with her friends liking she gave her consent.
All things being agreed that the wedding should be
With Roger her lover, and soon they agreed ”