The Nightingale ⁄ For Kate
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Both young and old I pray lend an ear
To a lovesick maiden in deep despair
Whose heart was young but whose courage failed
When her true love sailed on the Nightingale
Her parents were of high degree
Her true love not so rich as they
So they sent a press-gang which did not fail
To steal her true love for the Nightingale
As she one night on her pillow lay
A form before her these words did say
"Go tell your parents so they might quail
For the loss of your true love in the Nightingale"
On fourteenth day of December last
The storms did blow a most fearful blast
We lost our spars, likewise every sail
What a dismal wreck was the Nightingale
As she awoke in a terrible fright
It being the hour of twelve at night
To see his form standing cold and pale
Just as he was drowned on the Nightingale
These words he spoke in lamenting cries
"In the bay of Biscay my body lies
To become the prey of the shark and whale
With my drowned shipmates on the Nightingale"