OH! A MERRY LIFE DOES A HUNTER LEAD.
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BY GEORGE P. MORRIS.
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Oh! a merry life does a hunter lead!
He wakes with the dawn of day!
He whistles his dog and mounts his steed,
And scuds to the woods away!
The lightsome tramp of the deer he’ll mark,
As they troop in herds along;
And his rifle startles the tuneful lark
As he warbles his morning song!
Oh! a hunter’s life is the life for me!
That is the life for a man!
Let others sing of the swelling sea;
But match the woods if you can!
Then give me my gun—I’ve an eye to mark
The deer as they bound along!
My steed and my dog, and the cheerful lark
To warble my morning song.