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SET OF GLEES.

MUSIC BY MOORE.

THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS.

WHEN o'er the silent seas alone,
For days and nights we've cheerless gone,
Oh they who've felt it know how sweet,
Some sunny morn a sail to meet.

Sparkling at once is ev'ry eye,

"Ship ahoy! ship ahoy!" our joyful cry;
While answering back the sounds we hear
"Ship ahoy! ship ahoy! what cheer? what cheer?"

Then sails are back'd, we nearer come,
Kind words are said of friends and home;
And soon, too soon, we part with pain,
To sail o'er silent seas again.

Quick, quick, now, I'll give you, since Time's glass will run

Ev'n faster than ours doth, three bumpers in one; "Here's the poet who sings-here's the warrior who fights

"Here's the statesman who speaks, in the cause of men's rights!"

Charge! (drinks) hip, hip, hurra, hurra!

Come, once more, a bumper!-then drink as you please,

Tho', who could fill half-way to toast such as these? "Here's our next joyous meeting-and oh when we

meet,

"May our wine be as bright and our union as sweet!"

Charge! (drinks) hip, hip, hurra, hurra!

HIP, HIP, HURRA!

COME, fill round a bumper, fill up to the brim, He who shrinks from a bumper I pledge not to him; "Here's the girl that each loves, be her eye of what hue,

“Or lustre, it may, so her heart is but true."

Charge! (drinks) hip, hip, hurra, hurra!

Come, charge high again, boys, nor let the full wine Leave a space in the brimmer, where daylight may shine;

"Here's the friends of our youth-though of some we're bereft,

"May the links that are lost but endear what are left!"

Charge! (drinks) hip, hip, hurra, hurra!

Once more fill a bumper-ne'er talk of the hour; On hearts thus united old Time has no pow'r.

"May our lives, tho', alas! like the wine of to-night,

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