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# Songs of Exile

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A collection of medieval Hebrew poetry translated into English. Many of these translations were first published in The Jewish Quarterly Review.
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SONGS·OF·EXILE
NINA·DAVIS
SONGS OF EXILE
נַפְשִׁי לַאדֹנָי מִשֹּׁמְרִים לַבֹּקֶר שֹׁמְרִים לַבֹּקֶר׃
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than watchmen look for the morning, yea, more than watchmen for the morning.—Ps. cxxx, 6.
* זמרות בלילה
* Songs of Exile
* By Hebrew Poets
* Translated by
* Nina Davis
* Philadelphia
* The Jewish Publication Society of America
* 1901
Copyrighted, 1901, by
The Jewish Publication Society of America.
All rights reserved
Press of Edward Stern & Co., Inc. Philadelphia
TO MY FATHER
CONTENTS
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PAGE |
| Prelude: Ode on Chazanuth | | 9 |
| The Prophet Jeremiah by the Cave of Machpelah | Elasar ben Kalir | 12 |
| The Prophet Jeremiah and the Personification of Israel | Attributed to Elasar ben Kalir | 18 |
| A Song of Redemption | Solomon Ibn Gabirol | 24 |
| Morning Song | Solomon Ibn Gabirol | 29 |
| A Song of Love | Unknown | 30 |
| Ode to Zion | Jehudah Halevi | 36 |
| Where Shall I Find Thee? | Jehudah Halevi | 44 |
| Song of Israel to God | Jehudah Halevi | 47 |
| Israel's Duration | Jehudah Halevi | 49 |
| The Lord is My Portion | Jehudah Halevi | 50 |
| Song of the Oppressed | Jehudah Halevi | 51 |
| Longing | Jehudah Halevi | 52 |
| A Love Song | Jehudah Halevi | 53 |
| Wedding Song | Jehudah Halevi | 54 |
| To the Glory of Jerusalem | Jehudah Halevi | 58 |
| Loved of My Soul | Jehudah Halevi | 60 |
| Song of Loneliness | Jehudah Halevi | 63 |
| The Fast of Tebeth | Joseph bar Samuel Tob Elem | 64 |
| Hymn of Weeping | Amittai | 68 ​ |
| Hymn of Refuge | Isaac ben Samuel and Solomon ben Samuel | 70 |
| I Am the Suppliant | Baruch ben Samuel | 72 |
| The Burning of the Law | Meïr of Rothenburg | 82 |
| Dirge for the Ninth of Ab | Unknown | 92 |
| Hoshana | Unknown | 98 |
| The Ark of the Covenant | From the Talmud | 102 |
| The Ideal Minister | From the Talmud | 111 |
| The Giving of the Law | From Midrash Rabbah | 115 |
| The Ages of Man | Attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra | 118 |
| The Song of Chess | Attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra | 126 |
| Sketch of the Game of Chess | Bon Senior Abn Yachia | 132 |
| Poem on Chess | Unknown | 140 |
| The Death of Moses | From Midrash Tanchuma | 143 |
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# Songs of Exile/A Song of Redemption

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A SONG OF REDEMPTION
Solomon Ibn Gabirol, grammarian, philosopher, and poet, was born in Spain, in 1021 C.E. His classical style of verse replaced the language of the early Paitanim, and brought the sacred poetry of the Spanish-Arabian Jews towards its perfection. This Song of Redemption (גאלה) is a Sabbath morning hymn recited between Passover and Pentecost.
Stanza 1, line 6, "remnant tenth," Isaiah vi, 13; "shall cause man's strife to cease," Isaiah xix, 24.
Stanza 2, line 1, Lamentations v, 20.
Stanza 3, line 8, Song of Songs ii, 12.
Stanza 4, lines 7, 8, alludes to the persecutions suffered by the Jews under both the Crescent and the Cross.
Stanza 7, line 2, "Ariel," Isaiah xxix, 1, 2; line 4, Daniel xii; line 8, Isaiah, lix, 20; line 12, Psalm xc, 15.
A Song of Redemption
By Solomon Ibn Gabirol
CAPTIVE of sorrow on a foreign shore, A handmaid as 'neath Egypt's slavery: Through the dark day of her bereavement sore She looketh unto Thee. Restore her sons, O Mighty One of old! Her remnant tenth shall cause man's strife to cease. O speed the message; swiftly be she told Good tidings, which Elijah shall unfold: Daughter of Zion, sing aloud! behold Thy Prince of Peace!
Wherefore wilt Thou forget us, Lord, for aye? Mercy we crave! O Lord, we hope in Thee alway, Our King will save! ​Surely a limit boundeth every woe, But mine enduring anguish hath no end; My grievous years are spent in ceaseless flow, My wound hath no amend. O'erwhelmed, my helm doth fail, no hand is strong To steer the bark to port, her longed-for aim. How long, O Lord, wilt Thou my doom prolong? When shall be heard the dove's sweet voice of song? O leave us not to perish for our wrong, Who bear Thy Name!
Wherefore wilt Thou forget us, Lord, for aye? Mercy we crave! O Lord, we hope in Thee alway, Our King will save!
Wounded and crushed, beneath my load I sigh, Despised and abject, outcast, trampled low; ​How long, O Lord, shall I of violence cry, My heart dissolve with woe? How many years, without a gleam of light, Has thraldom been our lot, our portion pain! With Ishmael as a lion in his might, And Persia as an owl of darksome night, Beset on either side, behold our plight Betwixt the twain.
Wherefore wilt Thou forget us, Lord, for aye? Mercy we crave! O Lord, we hope in Thee alway, Our King will save!
Is this thy voice? The voice of captive Ariel's woe unhealed? Virgin of Israel, arise, rejoice! In Daniel's vision, lo, the end is sealed: When Michael on the height ​Shall stand aloft in strength, And shout aloud in might, And a Redeemer come to Zion at length. Amen, amen, behold The Lord's decree foretold. E'en as Thou hast our souls afflicted sore, So wilt Thou make us glad for evermore!
Wherefore wilt Thou forget us, Lord, for aye? Mercy we crave! O Lord, we hope in Thee alway, Our King will save!
# Songs of Exile/Hoshana

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HOSHANA
From the Liturgy for Hoshana Rabbah. The author is unknown.
Stanza 6, line 1, refers to the ceremony of the pouring forth of water at the Temple during the Festival of Tabernacles.
Stanza 9, line 2, Hosea iii, 2. For mystical interpretations, see Targum Jonathan, Rashi in loco, Mezudath Zion, and Mezudath David.
Stanza 10, line 1, Leviticus xxiii, 40.
Hoshana
O GOD! like lost sheep we have gone astray; From out Thy book wipe not our name away. Save! O save!
O God! sustain the sheep for slaughter;—see These dealt with wrathfully and slain for Thee. Save! O save!
O God! Thy sheep! the sheep whom Thou didst tend In pasture; Thy creation and Thy friend. Save! O save!
O God! the poor among the sheep! Take heed: Answer in time of favor to their need. Save! O save! ​O God! they lift their eyes to Thee, long sought: Let those that rise against Thee count as naught. Save! O save!
O God! they pouring water, worshipping— Let them be drawing from salvation's spring. Save! O save!
O God! let saviours come to Zion at length, Endowed of Thee, and saved by Thy Name's strength. Save! O save!
O God! in garb of vengeance clad about, In mighty wrath cast all deceivers out. Save! O save!
O God! and Thou wilt surely not forget Her, by love-tokens bought, that hopeth yet. Save! O save! ​O God! they seeking Thee with willow bough! Regard their crying from Thine Heaven now. Save! O save!
O God! as with a crown bless Thou the year; Yea, Lord, my singing, I beseech Thee, hear. Save! O save!
# Songs of Exile/A Love Song

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A Love Song
By Jehudah Halevi
LET my sweet song be pleasing unto Thee— The incense of my praise— O my Belovèd that art flown from me, Far from mine errant ways! (But I have held the garment of His love, Seeing the wonder and the might thereof.) The glory of Thy Name is my full store— Enough for all the pain wherein I strove: Increase my sorrow:—I will love Thee more! Marvellous is Thy love!
# Songs of Exile/Hymn of Refuge

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HYMN OF REFUGE
The Hymn of Refuge is taken, like the last hymn, from the closing service of the Day of Atonement, and it consists of the first stanza of a Selichah by Isaac ben Samuel and the first of a Selichah by Solomon ben Samuel. The date of the first poet is unknown, though he was probably one of those composers of Selichoth living between the tenth and the twelfth century. Solomon lived early in the thirteenth century. These two verses are sung to a beautiful old melody to which the Kol Nidrei poem, כי הנה כחומר, is also set.
Hymn of Refuge
THE shade of His hand shall cover us (Under the wings of His presence); He surely will pity, trying thus The wrongful heart, to show the righteous way. Arise, Lord, I beseech Thee: My help! help now, I pray; Lord, now let our crying reach Thee.
"Forgiven," He will let us hear (He in His secret dwelling); His hand shall bring salvation near The people, poor and lowly and astray. While we to Thee be crying, Help wondrously we pray; Lord, now be Thou replying.
# Songs of Exile/Hymn of Weeping

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HYMN OF WEEPING
Amittai ben Shefatia lived about at the end of the eleventh century. He recited his own compositions in the synagogue as Chazan. This Hymn occurs in the Neïlah Service of the Day of Atonement, and has for basis and refrain the following Biblical passage: “The Lord, the Lord, a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and acquitting. . . . And pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance”—Exodus xxxiv, 6, 7, 9.
Stanza 1, line 1, Psalm lxxvii, 3.
Stanza 4, line 2, Psalm lvi, 8.
Hymn of Weeping
By Amittai
LORD, I remember, and am sore amazed To see the cities stand in haughty state, And God's own city to the low grave razed:— Yet in all time we look to Thee and wait.
Spirit of mercy! rise in might! awake! Plead to thy Master in our mournful plaint, And crave compassion for thy people's sake; Each head is weary, and each heart is faint.
I rest upon my pillars—love and grace, Upon the flood of ever-flowing tears; I pour out prayer before His searching face, And through the fathers' merit lull my fears.
O Thou Who hearest weeping, healest woe! Our tears within Thy vase of crystal store; Save us; and all Thy dread decrees forego, For unto Thee our eyes turn evermore.
# Royal Naval Biography/Smyth, John

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JOHN SMYTH, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained a lieutenant’s commission in 1800, and his present rank on the 4th May, 1804.
# Royal Naval Biography/Sneyd, Clement

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CLEMENT SNEYD, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1811.]
This officer served for many years in India. He was made a lieutenant in 1793, and promoted to the rank of commander Sept. 25, 1806. In 1810, we find him commanding the Muros brig, on the Guernsey station, where he made several captures, but of inconsiderable value. His next appointment was to the Myrtle, a ship-sloop, in which vessel he continued for some time after his advancement to post rank, April 3, 1811.
Captain Sneyd married, in 1813, Ellen, third daughter of Robert Swetenham, of Somerford Booths, near Congleton, Cheshire, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Smollett, John Rouett

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JOHN ROUETT SMOLLETT, Esq [Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant in 1794; Commander, Aug. 28, 1799; and Post-Captain, April 29, 1802.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Somerville, Kenelm

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HON. KENELM SOMERVILLE, [Post-Captain of 1814.]
A son of the late Hon. Hugh Somerville, a colonel in the army, by his second lady, Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Wriothesley Digby, of Meriden, co. Warwick, and only surviving brother of the present Lord Somerville, in the Scotch peerage.
This officer was made lieutenant, Nov. 11, 1807; advanced to the rank of commander Feb. 1, 1812; and subsequently employed, in the Thames troop-ship, on the North American station. His conduct during the expedition up the Patuxent river, on which occasion he held a command in the British flotilla, obtained him the “warmest acknowledgments” of Rear-Admiral Cockburn, who “earnestly recommended” him to Sir Alexander Cochrane’s “favorable notice.” His post commission bears date June 7, 1814.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.
# Royal Naval Biography/Sotheby, Thomas

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THOMAS SOTHEBY, Esq Admiral of the Blue.
This officer obtained post rank, June 11th, 1783; and at the commencement of the war with France, in 1793, commanded the Daphne, of 20 guns; from which vessel he was afterwards removed into the Andromeda frigate, stationed in the North Sea. On the 1st June, 1795, he was appointed to the Bombay Castle, of 74 guns, and had the misfortune to be wrecked in that ship at the mouth of the Tagus, towards the latter end of the following year.
In the spring of 1798, Captain Sotheby was appointed to the Namur of 90 guns, and subsequently to the Marlborough, 74; the command of which latter ship he retained until the 4th Nov., 1800, when she struck on a ledge of rocks near isle Gioúat, where she hung for several hours; but by great exertions, and throwing several of her guns and heavy stores overboard, was at length got off; the damage she had sustained, however, was so great, that even after the masts were cut away, and the remainder of the guns thrown overboard, the water increased so fast as to make it necessary to abandon her to her fate. The crew were saved by the Captain, 74, and a Danish vessel then in company, and the Marlborough soon after sunk at her anchors.
On the 2d Jan. 1801, the Court-Martial held to try Captain Sotheby, for the loss of the Marlborough, passed the following sentence:-
"That they were of opinion her loss was occasioned by her striking on the Bervadeux shoals, on the coast of France, which accident happened from the uncertain situation of the rocks; and Captain Sotheby's anxiety and zeal to carry his orders into execution, and being thereby so disabled as to render it impossible to save her; that no blame was imputable to Captain Sotheby, his Officers, or Ship's Company, for their conduct on that occasion; and that they afterwards did their utmost to preserve the ship and stores."
Our officer was next appointed to the Courageux, 74, and continued in that ship during the remainder of the war. His ​promotion to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place Nov. 9, 1805; he became a Vice-Admiral, July 31, 1810; and Admiral of the Blue, July 19, 1821. In the years 1808 and 1809, we finding him serving in the Channel fleet, with his flag in the Dreadnought of 98 guns.
Admiral Sotheby married the youngest daughter of Christopher Anstey, of Bath, Esq. That lady died at Clifton-Hill a near Bristol, in the month of April, 1802.
# Royal Naval Biography/Smyth, Spencer

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SPENCER SMYTH, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained his first commission on the 2d June, 1812; and subsequently served under the flag of Rear-Admiral (now Sir Philip C. H.) Durham, in the Bulwark and Venerable, third rates, on the North Sea Channel, and West India stations. In the latter ship, he assisted at the capture of a French letter of marque, with a valuable cargo, Dec. 1813; and two frigates of the largest class, Jan. 16th and 20th, 1814. He was likewise present at the subjugation of Guadaloupe in 1815.
We next find Lieutenant Smyth in the Albion 74, Captain Richard Raggett, stationed as a guard-ship at Portsmouth, where he subsequently had charge of the semaphoric department. From thence he was removed to the Dartmouth frigate, Captain (now Sir Thomas) Fellowes, which ship formed part of the squadron under Sir Edward Codrington, at the battle of Navarin. On that occasion he was slightly ​wounded. He was advanced to his present rank, by commission dated Oct. 22d, 1827; and appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard, Mar. 19th, 1833.
* ↑ See Suppl. Part II. p. 211, et seq.
* ↑ See Vol. I. Part II note at p. 869.
# Royal Naval Biography/Sotheby, Charles

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CHARLES SOTHEBY, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1812.]
This officer received his first commission in 1802; obtained the rank of Commander, Jan. 8, 1810; and was made post, Feb. 28, 1812. His last appointment was. May 18, 1824, to the Seringapatam frigate, fitting for the Mediterranean.
In May, 1825, Captain Sotheby, accompanied by the Alacrity brig, demanded satisfaction from the Bey of Rhodes, for an outrage committed against the British consul, by some Egyptian troops, who broke into his house, and robbed him ​of 11,000 piastres. The Bey admitted the fact, but refused to make restitution, or even to avow it in writing. Captain Sotheby, therefore, thought proper to embark the Consul and his family, telling the Bey, that if he did not comply within a given time, he would fire on the town. The time having elapsed, and the required document being still withheld, a shot was fired into the Bey’s own house, and a flag of truce sent to try its effect. the Turk had not anticipated so prompt an execution of the threat, and the acknowledgment was no longer refused. The Consul’s flag was consequently again displayed, and Captain Sotheby left the Alacrity there to take care that his Majesty’s representative received no ill treatment on account of this spirited proceeding.
In Sept. 1826, the boats of the Seringapatam, under Lieutenant William Burnett, and a party of marines commanded by Lieutenant Parker, of that corps, captured and destroyed three piratical vessels, at Andros, without sustaining any loss.
Captain Sotheby married, in 1810, the Hon. Jane Hamilton, third daughter of the late Lord Belhaven and Stenton, which lady died Sept. 18, 1820.
# Report of the Commission of Enquiry, North Borneo and Sarawak, 1962/APPENDIX A

London, United Kingdom: The National Archives, Kew, pages 95–96
APPENDIX A COMMISSION'S ITINERARY
# Report of the Commission of Enquiry, North Borneo and Sarawak, 1962/APPENDIX B

London, United Kingdom: The National Archives, Kew, pages 97–100
APPENDIX B CENSUS ABSTRACT Table 1 — TOTAL Population by Community and Sub-Group
Table 2.——PERCENTAGE Increase in Population, 1951-60
Table 3.——TOTAL Population by age
Table 4.——RELIGIOUS Persuasions OF THE Population as Recorded at the Census of 1960
Table 5.—LITERACY of Population Aged 10 Years AND over
A.―North Borneo
B.―Sarawak
Table 6.—EDUCATION
A.—Secondary and University Education by Communities: Position in 1960 of Population aged 10 Years and Over
B.—Total Population aged 10 Years or Over Who are not Receiving, or Have not Received, any Education
* ↑ Abstracted from "Report on the Census of Population taken on 10th August, 1960" (North Borneo), and "Report on the Census of Population taken on 15th June, 1960" (Sarawak).
* ↑ Defined for the purposes of the Census as ability to read and write a letter
# Report of the Commission of Enquiry, North Borneo and Sarawak, 1962/APPENDIX D

London, United Kingdom: The National Archives, Kew, pages 102–103
APPENDIX D LEGAL MEANING OF THE TERM "NATIVE"
1. Sarawak (Extract from the Interpretation Ordinance, 1953)
"......'native' means a British subject of any race which is now considered to be indigenous to Sarawak as set out in the Schedule:
Schedule (Section 3)
Races which are now considered to be indigenous to Sarawak and therefore natives within the meaning of this Ordinance:
* Bukitans
* Bisayahs
* Dusuns
* Dayaks (Sea)
* Dayaks (Land)
* Kadayans
* Kalabits
* Kayans
* Kenyahs (including Sabups and Sipengs)
* Kajangs (including Sekapans, Kejamans, Lahanans, Punans, Tanjongs, and Kanowits)
* Lugats
* Lisums
* Malays
* Melanos
* Muruts
* Penans
* Sians
* Tagals
* Ukits
And any admixture of the above with each other.
2. North Borneo (Extract from the Interpretation (Definition of Native) Ordinance 1952, as amended by the Interpretation (Definition of Native) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1958)
2.—(1) Wherever the word 'native', used as a substantive, occurs in any written law in force at the commencement of this Ordinance, other than the Ordinances set out in the Schedule to this Ordinance, or in any written law coming into force after the commencement of this Ordinance, unless expressly otherwise enacted therein, it shall mean either—
Provided that if one of such person's parents is or was a member of any such people and either lives or if deceased is buried or reputed to be buried in the Colony, then the qualifying period shall be reduced to two years.
No claim by any person to be a native by virtue of the provisions of paragraphs (b), (c) or (d) hereof shall be recognised as valid unless supported by an appropriate declaration made a Native Court under Section 3."
# Songs of Love and Rebellion/A little soliloquy

A LITTLE SOLILOQUY
We come into this little world, And we live our little day; And we speak our little prologue, And we act our little play.
And we blow our little trumpets, Give our little horns a toot; And we love our little maiden, And we press our little suit.
And we work at work a little, And a little while we fuss; And we make our litle money, Or we make our little bus'.
And we make a little racket, And perhaps a little name, And we play our little "futures" Till death ends our little game.
Then they preach a little sermon, And they sing a little stave, And they close our little coffin In a narrow little grave.
# Songs of Love and Rebellion/Faithless

FAITHLESS
They tell me you are faithless; that you love me now no more; That love's lodestar shines no longer on the dreamer's temple door; That my heart misread in reading the illuming of your eye; My faith in you was lunacy, a fair and fleeting lie.
Often, dear, and often, as I sit here, all alone, In the mystic midnight dreaming of the glory I have known, I have heard their sneering whispers, but I would not turn from you, Though my inmost spirit trembled lest their lying words were true.
All alone my soul has wandered, when the storm clouds hid the blue, Through the tumult and the darkness, in its search for life and you: I have longed for all the beauty of the unforgotten day, And the kiss of death were sweeter than that we must part for aye.
Better far the roses vying with the lilies o'er my tomb, Should forever hide my being in the dust's insentient gloom, Than to waken to the knowledge that- the world had spoken true, And my soul had worshiped falseness when it bowed itself to you.
# Songs of Love and Rebellion/A letter to psyche

A LETTER TO PSYCHE
My soul,—I call you this—I come tonight To send love's pleading message on its flight Across the gulf of silence; and I dream That it will find you by some sylvan stream; That it will reach you ere the hand of fate Has written the death-giving words, Too Late.
Have you forgotten all the golden past? Was it too fair and beautiful to last? Have I, at any moment, dearest one, A single thing to hurt you, said or done? If so, I would recall the word or deed, And for your full forgiveness, dear, I plead.
The days are long without you, dear; so long The hours between the dark and dawn! The song You sang has melted to an undertone, And shadows linger where the sunlight shone; And darkness hastens, dear, to blight The world you made so beautiful and bright.
Your dear, lost face smiles on me through a mist Of tears; the hand that I so oft have kissed Upon my shoulder rests; your witching eyes Are on me, and I turn with glad surprise— A dream? And is this all? And must all end In nothing, and the dream to dust descend?
A man's life is the life his heart receives From her he loves, in whom his soul believes; Beyond her there is nothing more divine, And, so, you were to me my faith and shrine: To all things else I may have been untrue, But never yet an infidel to you.
My heart, my soul's own soul, I come tonight To send love's pleading message on its flight Across the gulf of silence; and I pray That love will guard and haste it on its way; That it will reach you ere the hand of fate Has written the death-giving words, Too Late.
# Songs of Love and Rebellion/De ghos' cat

DE GHOS' CAT
De ghos' cat wauks in de dark ob nite; His feet am padded en his step am lite; En he grabs de sinner en, karries him' way Ter burn en ter burn twel de jegment day.
De ghos' cat wauks all eroun' en eroun'; En he nebber meows, nebber mecks er soun'; But he lays on yo' bres' en sucks yo' bref En karries you 'way ter de house ob def.
De ghos' cat's comin'! you sinners, lookout! He's waukin' eroun' en eroun' erbout! En he's ready ter jump on one en all, Dat aint pervided wid de hebbenly call!