This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ... you with all my heart. Pass we the joys and sorrows boatmen find, The clear calm lake, the opposing river's roar, The storm, the rock, the gentle favouring wind, The drooping branch, the weed-entangled oar, The joy for whiskey got, the growl for more, The thundering cannon's loud redoubled shock, The bugle's mellow ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ... you with all my heart. Pass we the joys and sorrows boatmen find, The clear calm lake, the opposing river's roar, The storm, the rock, the gentle favouring wind, The drooping branch, the weed-entangled oar, The joy for whiskey got, the growl for more, The thundering cannon's loud redoubled shock, The bugle's mellow note, when that is o'er, Rousing the echoes of the Eagle's Rock, And There's a hole in the ballad, for I have forgotten the last line, which however is no great loss, as Doolan, I have no doubt, can make up for the deficiency, by telling us a story about the Eagle's Nest. Come, begin, Doolan, begin," " Why, then, 'tis I would do that same," replied Doolan, " if I knew rightly what to tell your honour. Let me see--did your honour ever hear how the soldier went to rob the eagle's nest, and take away the young little eagles? The eagle's nest, as I showed your honour a little while ago, is just on the face of the white rock; the hole of it is something like an eagle's wing; and without any doubt a hard job it would be to get at it; but, says the soldier, ' I'll rob it, ' says he. ' May be you will why, ' says the eagle to himself, for he heard every word the soldier said, so he just purtended to fly away out of sight, up into the clouds entirely. When the soldier saw that, ' I have you now, ' says he; so with that he lets himself down from the top of the cliff by a big rope, till he came opposite the nest, when just as he was going to lay his hand on the young chaps, who should pop down, out of a thundering cloud, but the ould eagle himself. ' Good-morrow, mister soldier, ' says the eagle, says he, ' and what may your business be with me, that you're after taking so much trouble to call at my lodgings this fine morning?' ' Oh, nothin...
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