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Within this Volume you will find,

No project to "improve the mind"!

No "purpose" lurks within these lays —

These idle songs of idle days.

They're seldom learnëd, never long —

The best apology for song!

Should e'er they chance to have the pow'r,

To pass away some lazy hour —

They'll serve all "purpose," it is true,

The Minstrel ever had in view!