| Brightman Sarah
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| The Trees They Grow So High
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| Sweet Polly Oliver
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| As sweet Polly Oliver lay musing in bed,
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| A sudden strange fancy came into her head.
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| «Nor father nor mother shall make me false prove,
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| I’ll 'list as a soldier, and follow my love.»
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| So early next morning she softly arose,
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| And dressed herself up in her dead brother’s clothes.
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| She cut her hair close, and she stained her face brown,
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| And went for a soldier to fair London Town.
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| Then up spoke the sergeant one day at his drill,
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| «Now who’s good for nursing? |
| A captain, he’s ill.»
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| «I'm ready,"said Polly. To nurse him she’s gone,
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| And finds it’s her true love all wasted and wan.
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| The first week the docter kept shaking his head,
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| «No nursing, young fellow, can save him,"he said.
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| But when Pooly Oliver had nursed him back to life
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| He cried, «You have cherished him as if you were his wife».
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| O then Polly Oliver, whe burst into tears
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| And told the good doctor her hopes and her fears,
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| And very shortly after, for better or for worse,
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| The captain took joyfully his pretty soldier nurse. |