‘Lay my Bible at my head,

My Testament at my feet;

The earth and worms shall be my bed,

Till Christ and I shall meet.’

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a. Written down by Mrs Dulany, January 14, 1885, from the recitation of her mother, Mrs Nourse, aged above ninety, as learned when a child, in Philadelphia. b. From the same source, furnished several years earlier by Miss Perine, of Baltimore.

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It rains, it rains in old Scotland,

And down the rain does fa,

And all the boys in our town