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all my fond objects of tenderness meet? The lambs and the heifers that follow my call; My father, my mother, My sister, my brother, And dear Isabella, the joy of them all? O when shall I visit the land of my birth? 'Tis the loveliest land on the face of the earth. --J. M. SHEFFIELD, June 1808. _Emerald_, n. s., I-624, Oct. 15, 1808, Boston. [_Ranz des Vaches._ James Montgomery, _The West Indies and Other Poems_, 3rd. ed., Phila., 1811 (London, 1810). P. 84, _The Swiss Cowherd's Song, in a Foreign Land_. "Imitated from the foregoing," _i. e._, the French verses.] THE SONG OF THE SWISS, IN A STRANGE LAND _Lit. Mirror_, I-148, Oct. 29, 1808, Portsmouth, N. H. [Also in _Emerald_, n. s., I-624, Oct. 15, 1808, Boston.] THE SONG OF THE SWISS IN A STRANGE LAND. _Balance and Columbian Repos._, VII-176, Nov. 1, 1808, Hudson, N. Y. [Also in _Emerald_, n. s., I-624, Oct. 15, 1808, Boston.] SONG OF THE SWISS IN A STRANGE LAND. _Norfolk Repos._, III-392, Nov. 8, 1808, Dedham, Mass. [Also in _Emerald_, n. s., I-624, Oct. 15, 1808, Boston.] THE SONG OF THE SWISS, IN A STRANGE LAND. By the Author of "The Wanderer of Switzerland." _Lady's Weekly Misc._, VIII-128, Dec. 17, 1808, N. Y. [Also in _Emerald_, n. s., I-624, Oct. 15, 1808, Boston.] APPOINTMENT DISAPPOINTED! OR, VON SCHLEMMER, AND "POT LUCK." An Englishman invited once A German friend to dine On plain _pot luck_,--for such his phrase-- And drink some good port wine. Mein Herr repaired at proper time With stomach for the treat: The viands on the table placed, Von Schlemmer took his seat. Soup, turkey, beef, by turns were serv'd, Mein Herr declin'd each one: Fowls, turtle, sauce, they follow'd next, Von Schlemmer tasted none. His host at length, by kindness urged, Press'd him to taste some duck: "Ach nein!" with groans Von Schlemmer said, "I vait for de POT LUCK." --QUIZ. _Select Reviews_, I-71, Jan. 1809, Phila. On singing to a piano with a friend, the pathetic ballad of Mozart's "Vergiss me nicht,"[46] a few days previous to quitting my native country. "Forget me not,"
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