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I	A
I sing of a journey to Clifton	B
We would have perform'd if we could	C
Without cart or barrow to lift on	D
Poor Mary and me through the mud	E
Slee sla slud	E
Stuck in the mud	E
Oh it is pretty to wade through a flood	E
	-
II	A
So away we went slipping and sliding	F
Hop hop a la mode de deux frogs	G
'Tis near as good walking as riding	F
When ladies are dress'd in their clogs	G
Wheels no doubt	E
Go briskly about	E
But they clatter and rattle and make such a rout	E
	-
III	A
SHE	H
Well now I protest it is charming	F
How finely the weather improves	I
That cloud though is rather alarming	F
How slowly and stately it moves	I
	-
HE	H
Pshaw never mind	E
'Tis not in the wind	E
We are travelling south and shall leave it behind	E
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IV	J
SHE	H
I am glad we are come for an airing	F
For folks may be pounded and penn'd	E
Until they grow rusty not caring	F
To stir half a mile to an end	E
	-
HE	H
The longer we stay	E
The longer we may	E
It's a folly to think about weather or way	E
	-
V	H
SHE	H
But now I begin to be frighted	E
If I fall what a way I should roll	K
I am glad that the bridge was indicted	E
Stop stop I am sunk in a hole	K
	-
HE	H
Nay never care	L
'Tis a common affair	L
You'll not be the last that will set a foot there	L
	-
VI	J
SHE	H
Let me breathe now alittle and ponder	M
On what it were better to do	E
That terrible lane I see yonder	M
I think we shall never get through	E
	-
HE	H
So think I	J
But by the bye	J
We never shall know if we never should try	J
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VII	J
SHE	H
But should we get there how shall we get home	N
What a terrible deal of bad road we have past	E
Slipping and sliding and if we should come	O
To a difficult stile I am ruin'd at last	E
Oh this lane	P
Now it is plain	P
That struggling and striving is labour in vain	P
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VIII	J
HE	H
Stick fast there while I go and look	Q
	-
SHE	H
Don't go away for fear I should fall	R
	-
HE	H
I have examin'd it every nook	Q
And what you have here is a sample of all	R
Come wheel round	E
The dirt we have found	E
Would be an estate at a farthing a pound	E
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IX	I
Now Sister Anne the guitar you must take	S
Set it and sing it and make it a song	T
I have vari'd the verse for variety sake	S
And cut it off short because it was long	T
'Tis hobbling and lame	U
Which critics won't blame	U
For the sense and the sound they say should be the same	U

William Cowper

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