 | Charles Dibdin - English poetry - 1863 - 366 pages
...don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles aback ; For, they say, there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. I heard our good chaplain palaver one day, About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers.!... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...me, let storms e'er so oft 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 sakl to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry — When last we weigh'd anchor for sea, What... | |
 | Peter Burke - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1866 - 420 pages
...the gallant hero die ; Yet 'scaped each shot myself, for why ? " ' There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.' " of estate, and both officers in the army of Charles I. They were in the military service of the crown... | |
 | James Everett - Christian biography - 1867 - 154 pages
...ship, and let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little Cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack.' "The year 1860, and not smashed yet, for a man is immortal till his work is done. Neither have I found... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...greatest love of life appears. Three CHARLES DIBDIN. 1745-1814. There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Poor Jack. Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle ? He was all for love and a little for the bottle. Captain... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...liie Dead. 348 DIBDIN—P1ERPOXT—BARKE TT. CHARLES DIBDIN. '""P HERE'S a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, *- To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Poor Jach. JOHN PIERPONT. A WEAPON that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod ; But... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles aback ; For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers!... | |
 | Benjamin Leopold Farjeon - 1871 - 452 pages
...had been a man, so that you might be a sailor. And through all " there's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." ' ' Indeed, my dear,' exclaimed Mrs. Marvel, satisfied with the sentiment of the quotation, though... | |
 | Gilbert Haven, Thomas Russell - 1873 - 476 pages
...'childlikeness of trust. As they heard that word of confidence, " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack," or that tender tribute to Tom Bowling, — " Whose body is under hatches, But his soul is gone aloft,"... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...don't think me a milksop so soft T o be taken for trifles aback ; For they say there'» a Providence ow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's Why, I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and auch ; And, my timbers... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
