The Girl I Left Behind

The Girl I Left Behind
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I’m lonescme since I crossed the hills and o’er the moor that’s sedgy
With heavy thoughts iny mind is filled since I have parted with Peggy:
Whene’ I turn to view the place the tears doth fall and blind me
When I think on the charming grace of the girl I left behird me

The hour I remember well, when next to see doth move me,
The burning lames my heart doth tell since firat she owned she loved me:
In search of some one fair and gay several doth remind me,
I know my darling loves me well, though I left her far behiri me

The bers shall lavish, make no store, and the dove hecome & ranger,
The fallen water cease to roar before I’ll ever change her:
Each mutual promise faithfully made by her whom tears doth bund me
And bless the hour I pass away with the gir! I left behind me

My mind her image full retains whether asleep or waking:
I hope to my love again, for her my heart is breaking:
But if ever I chance to go that way and that she has not resigned me
I’ll reconcile my mind and stay with the girl I left behind me