...Till CHERRY Kи'E themselves do cry. RICHARD ALLISON, 1606. Cherub. — There's a sweet little CITERUR that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. — C. DlRDlN. Chickeus. — To swallow gudgeous ere they're catched, And count their CHICKENS ere...

...There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. LONGFELLOW, Resir/natwn. There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. DIBDIN, Poor Jack. There's such divinity doth hedge a king. SHAKSPEAEE, Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5_ There...

...then meeting the same animal in his native wilds or on the ice. Ah, then look out ! But " There's a little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." The horrors of exposure to storm ashore are generally alleviated in many ways, by extra supply of wrappings,...

...and I believe many a man is really supported and kept up in the time of danger by knowing there is a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." "Ah ! that sounds very pretty, Ralph, but I would far rather know the sailor's God is watching over...

...For, says he. do you ml^d me, let storms e'er so soft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft. To keep watch for the life of poor Jack I In the Downhill of Life. ID the downhill of life, when I liml.rm declining, May my lot no less fortunate-...

...tow : For says he, do ye mind me, let storms ere so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. I said to our Poll, for, d' ye see, she would cry, When last we weighed anchor for sea, What argufies...

...of 900 songs, began one of his ballads thus : tv SIR WILLIAM JONES, TRUMBULL, CRAB BE. 581 There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. SIR WILLIAM JONES, one of the learned of the earth, culled this striking antithesis from Persian literature...

..."For," says he, do you mind me, "let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There 'sa Hulbert ! " I said to onr Poll, — for, d1 ye see, she would cry, — When last nro weighed anchor for sea,...

...tow. For, says he, d'ye mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails o' sailors a-back, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. In the next verse Jack is worldly again. When Poll is ' sniv'ling and piping her eye' at the idea of...

...: For, says ho, Do you mind mo, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's it's no thy I said to our Poll (for, d'ye see ? she would cry When last we weighed anchor for sea), What argufies...