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II The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child’s Story.(Written for, and Inscribed to, W. M. the Younger.) IV 308 “It ’s easy to bid one rack one’s brain— / “I ’m sure my poor head aches again / “I ’ve scratched it so, and all in vain.
en Peter Still Charles Rogers Ye needna’ be courtin’ at me The Modern Scottish Minstrel; or, The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century.With Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in English Verse of the Most Celebrated Modern Gaelic Bards. IV Edinburgh Adam & Charles Black,North Bridge, Booksellers and Publishers to Her Majesty 1857 1845 222 “I ’ll busk you as braw as a queen, sweet lass, / I ’ll busk you as braw as a queen; / I ’ve guineas to spare, an’, hark ye, what ’s mair, / I ’m only twa score an’ fifteen, sweet lass, / Only twa score an’ fifteen.”
15 “I ’m wonderin’ too what he ’ll say, an’ where he ’ll preach her.”
en Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine 1907 544 And, first you know, queer shadows steal / From out the corners, so / Right where I hung my clothes I ’m sure / There ’s Something moves, and oh, / I feel a crawly, creepy chill / ’Way from my head to feet, / And little girls feel comf’tabler / To hid beneath the sheet!