As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.