And, on a sultry summer day,

We found him floating in the linn.

Once as we stood before his door

Smoking, and wondering who should pass,

Then trundling past him in a cart

Came Susan Foy, she won his heart,

She was a gallant lass.

And Billy Blinn conceal’d the flame

That burn’d, and scorch’d his very blood;

But often was he heard to sigh,