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8 Samuel Lover Quotes

Samuel Lover's collection reads like witty, lyrical storytelling that pulls you into heartfelt scenes of love, sea, and chance.

Samuel Lover quotes

  1. A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping, For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.

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  2. Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

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  3. For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.

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  4. 'That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before.' 'Then here goes another,' says he, 'to make sure, For there 's luck in odd numbers,' says Rory O'More.

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  5. As she sat in the low-backed car The man at the turn-pike bar Never asked for the toll But just rubbed his auld poll And looked after the low-backed car.

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  6. Sure my love is all crost Like a bud in the frost And there's no use at all in my going to bed, For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!

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  7. And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.

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  8. Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

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