I HAD A GUINEA GOLDEN - I had a guinea golden
I had a guinea golden; / I lost it in the sand,
Remembrance has a rear and front, --
'T is something like a house;
It has a garret also
For refuse and the mouse,
Besides, the deepest cellar
That ever mason hewed;
Look to it, by its fathoms
Ourselves be not pursued.
I had a guinea golden; / I lost it in the sand,
BEAUTY crowds me till I die, / Beauty, mercy have on me!
A deed knocks first at thought, / And then it knocks at will.
Whose are the little beds, I asked, / Which in the valleys lie?