Anonymous British Poems

Ring a Ring O' Roses,
A pocketful of posies,
Atishoo! Atishoo!
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'Twas by a fall I caught my death;
No man can tell his time or breath;
I might have died as soon as then
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He wore twin stripes of gold upon
And empty tunic sleeve;
His eyes were blue, his face so young
One hardly cold believe
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Hie upon Hielands,
and laigh upon Tay,
Bonnie George Campbell
rode out on a day.
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Lulley, lully, lulley, lully,
The faucon hath born my mak away.
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There were three rauens sat on a tree,
Downe a downe, hay down, hay downe
There were three rauens sat on a tree,
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A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
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If you sit down at set of sun,
And count the acts that you have done,
And counting find
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Grim Death took me without any warning,
I was well at night and dead at nine in the morning.
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On a dark lonely night on the Crimea's dread shore
There had been bloodshed and strife on the morning before,
The dead and the dying lay bleeding around,
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