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(Air: "She Wore a Wreath of Roses. ")
He wore an old blue shirt the night that first we met, / An old and tattered cabbage-tree concealed his locks of jet; / His footsteps had a languor, his voice a husky tone; / Both man and dog were spent with toil as they slowly / wandered home.