Rhymes of Northern Bards / Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham

by Unknown

Or is it ev’ry one combin’d,

Making one sweet form divine,

My lovely Mary of the Tyne?

Should it be love, thou’dst sure forgive?

That is the food on which I live;

But if thou should’st that bliss deny,

Then must thy faithful lover die;

Or linger out his life supine,

For lovely Mary of the Tyne!

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