“ I cannot help thinking that they
⁠Can fly to their parents with joy,
While mine, they are far, far away,
⁠Then relieve a poor Savoyard boy.
Should I return to that land far away,
⁠My poor helpless parents to see,
With me, they for ever would pray
⁠For the kindness you lavished on me.
Oh had I the means to repay
Their kindness, I would then with joy
Then turn not in pity away,
⁠But relieve a poor Savoyard boy.
FINIS.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ O Johnny, my dear jewel, don't treat me with disdain,
Nor leave me here behind you in sorrow to complain,
For if you do forsake me for ever I'm undone,
Quite void of shame and danger distracted I will run.
Twas on the banks of Claudy my love and did meet
In our private conversation our joys for to complete,
When the pretty feather'd songsters their note did
⁠⁠⁠sweetly sing
Whilst in my lover's arms he did me entertain. ”

“ Beside the bonny hawthorn that blooms in the vale.
⁠That blooms in the vale, that blooms in the vale,
⁠Beside the bonny hawthorn that blooms in the vale
O hark bonny Bees, hear the birds in yon grove,
How delightful they sing, how inviting to love,
The briers deck'd with (illegible text) perfumes the sadn'd dale,
Beside the bonny hawthorn that bloom in the vale.
⁠That blooms in the vale, theat blooms in the vale,
⁠Beside the bonny hawthorn, &c. ”