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First Line: At the sign of the lyre'
Last Line: The world is before you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin


'Autant ici qu'ailleurs'

'At the Sign of the Lyre,'
Good Folk, we present you
With the pick of our quire --
And we hope to content you!

Here be Ballad and Song,
The fruits of our leisure,
Some short and some long, --
May they all give you pleasure!

But if, when you read,
They should fail to restore you,
Farewell, and God-speed --
The world is before you!





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