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There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's aya. - [Absence] Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air, His very foot has music in 't, As he comes up the stair. - Ballad of Cumnor Hall--Mariner's Wife [Character] The dews of summer night did fall; The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. - Cumnor Hall, authorship of "Cumnor Hall" sometimes claimed for Jean Adam [Moon] For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - There's Nae Luck About the House--Ballad of Cumnor Hall [Absence]
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