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OLD Uncle Bob lay on the settle	A
At eventide while on the hob	B
'Roe tee riti too' sang the kettle	A
And charmed the dear heart of old Bob	B
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'Ree tee riti too' on his ears long	C
The ear chaining melody played	D
Till back on his mind rushed the years	E
long	C
Entombed and he more than half said	F
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'Twas just such an even as this is	G
When down by the oak in the dell	H
The bliss was made mine of all blisses	G
In glances I won from my Nell	H
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An August sun hung in the heaven	I
Or slowly went down o'er the hill	J
When lilting her song to the even	K
The darling skipt over the rill	J
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From moss'd stone to moss'd stone she	L
skipt and	M
Then up like a roe the hillside	N
Anon pass'd the willow tree tript and	M
Then then what had Ellen espied	M
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Had sight of my face the maid flurried	M
'Not flurried ' I murmur'd 'Nay nay '	-
As plucking a harebell she hurried	M
Again with her prize up the way	O
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The harebell consigned to her bosom	P
Her eyes seem'd to rivet she viewed	M
And still with a smile viewed the blossom	P
Till near to the spot where I stood	M
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Then raising her head and a golden	I
Lock twisting a word left her tongue	Q
Recall'd to my fancy an olden	I
Time dearer than bard ever sung	Q
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That time now of times ah an olden	I
Time dearer than bard ever sung	Q
And oh for the glamour so golden	I
The moment that word left her tongue	Q
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'Dear Robin ' she said and so sweetly	L
She linked the word 'dear ' with my name	R
My senses forsook me completely	L
And fierce delight shook my whole frame	R
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'Dear Nelly ' said I and the sweetest	M
Of hands in my hands I then prest	M
And the hour that ensued was the fleetest	M
That ever a mortal man blest	M
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Nay while yet the words she had spoken	I
Like silver bells rang in my ears	G
I felt that a barrier was broken	I
Had kept us asunder for years	G
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Then lived we the olden time over	S
Again ah the sweetest of hours	G
Ere years aid the mind to discover	S
What cankers may lurk in life's flowers	G
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When at the eve song of the ousel	L
Our hearts with a rapture would glow	L
Would mock what his fiercest carousal	L
Can on the mad Bacchant bestow	L
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Then hand in hand skimmed we the	T
meadow	L
Or up the deep valley would run	I
And find in the willow's cool shadow	L
A shield from the heat of the sun	I
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There sat we full often and prattled	M
Of all we had done or would do	M
And still from our little tongues rattled	M
Whatever we fancied or knew	M
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Aground its old stem oft we sported	M
And charmed with their colour or smell	L
As oft 'neath its shade we assorted	M
The blooms we had pluck'd in the dell	L
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That time of times dearest that olden	I
Time dearer than bard ever sung	Q
The meanest of flowers yet a golden	I
Flower seem'd to this bosom when young	Q
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The daisy we'd prize coy and cosy	L
Its white cup blood rimm'd and the gold	M
Of its eye made it worthy the posy	L
Our mothers should smile to behold	M
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We'd there too the blue bell which loveth	T
To play with the breeze in the shade	M
As eastward in spring tide he moveth	T
To heal the wounds winter hath made	M
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The cowslip was ours who with maiden	I
Like modesty looks at the ground	M
While winds with her riches are laden	I
And earth with her beauty is crown'd	M
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The woodbine we loved and as truly	L
The poppy that flared in the sun	I
Whose cup black and crimson we duly	L
Were taught by our mothers to shun	I
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To later born bloom as to early	L
Our little hearts opened or clung	Q
To darnel as primrose and rarely	L
Oft while each we gathered we sung	Q
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And echo oft woke at our singing	U
Or laughed back our laughter aloud	M
While down thro' the clear air came ringing	U
A trill from the lark in the cloud	M
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That time of times dearest that olden	I
Time dearer than bard ever sung	Q
Thus fleeted so radiant and golden	I
The hours when this bosom was young	Q
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Thus fleeted the spring and the summer	S
Thus richer hued autumn went pass'd	M
And welcome awaited the comer	S
When winter came on with a blast	M
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Then oft we with puft cheeks have striven	I
To mock the wind's bugles and mocked	M
While oaks in his anger were driven	I
And houses like cradles were rock'd	M
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Then loved we to see the snow falling	U
In large feathery flakes to the ground	M
And oft in each other snow balling	U
An hour of pure rapture was found	M
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Then loved we the skater to view as	L
He flew here and there in a trice	L
And up for a clap our hands flew as	L
He wrote out his name on the ice	L
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Then then when the brisk day had ended	M
Then then for the night that came down	V
The hour I to Nelly then wended	M
The welcome my errand would crown	V
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The father would hand me a cracket	M
The mother would smoothen my hair	W
The sister would rax down my jacket	M
Or with me some dainty would share	W
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Then while round the table would story	L
On story the elder folk tell	L
Wee Robin was left in his glory	L
To prate in the nook with wee Nell	L
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And so pass's the time time that olden	I
Time dearer than bard ever sung	Q
Then oh for the dreams bright and golden	I
That nightly their spells o'er us flung	Q
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That time of times dearest that olden	I
Time dearer than bard ever sung	Q
Of this so we talk'd till the golden	I
Sun sank and the Moon o'er us hung	Q
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Then look's up a moment the maiden	I
And gazed on the planet above	X
And I saw in her eyes a soul laden	I
And sparkling with rapture and love	X
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Then gushed from those wells of pure beauty	L
Such spells had my heart been a stone	Y
I'd felt as I felt then my duty	L
My love and my all were her own	Y
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Then tho' failed my speech crabb'd and broken	I
To speak what I'd do for her sake	Z
More golden words never were spoken	I
Than seemed to her ear what I spake	Z
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Then claspt I her tight to my bosom	P
And ere that great moment had pass'd	M
I kist and was kist by the blossom	P
And oh that first kiss was our last	M
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I kiss'd and was kiss'd love controlled in	K
That moment my arms round her cast	M
We kiss'd and our feelings so golden	I
But oh that first kiss was our last	M
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Beneath a dark alder a devil	L
In man's shape had lurked and that hour	S
A tale of black import and evil	L
Had enter'd her fond father's door	A2
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And from that loved door I was chidden	I
Till raving and dying she lay	L
Then to her bed side I was bidden	I
But what could I then do or say	L
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She perish'd the victim of slander	S
And I from that time was oft eyed	M
Alone in the night tide to wander	S
And pace for long hours the burnside	M
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And this would I do till from sorrow	L
And manifold labour and prayer	W
My soul did an angel's strength borrow	L
To break the strong bonds of despair	W
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'Then peace peace was mine ' On the settle	L
Unc turned here and saw at the hob	B
A little Nell using the kettle	L
And 'Tea tea ' she said 'Uncle Bob '	-