The Thievish Privateer.
Oh! some talk about Jack Sheppard;
Bill Sikes a hero call;
And some speak of a worthy,
Whose name it is Sam Hall;
But there’s a thief in our belief
Whose crimes e’en worse appear,
Who in war’s dark hour doth the ocean scour—
’Tis the thievish Privateer.
While nations are contending—