SONG, CALLED THE COUNTRY LADY'S REVEILLIE.

SONG, CALLED THE COUNTRY LADY'S REVEILLIE. Joanna Baillie Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL. 1840 pp. 309-310.

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SONG , CALLED THE COUNTRY LADY'S REVEILLIE . FROM early fire wending The smoke is ascending , And with the clouds blending , Awake , awake ! From green covert creeping Wild creatures are peeping , Fy ! sloth of dull sleeping Forsake , forsake ! The cocks are a-crowing , The kine are a-lowing , The milk-pail is flowing Awake , awake The dew-drops are gleaming , And bright eyes are beaming , The mist of pale dreaming Forsake , forsake ! Now maidens are bracing , And bodices lacing , The slender form gracing , Awake , awake ! On slippered toe stealing , Thy fair face revealing , The curtain's dark sheeling Forsake , forsake