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LOUIS, WHAT RECK I BY THEE.
Tune—“Louis, what reck I by thee.”
[The Jeannie of this very short, but very clever song, is Mrs. Burns. Her name has no chance of passing from the earth if impassioned verse can preserve it.]
I.
Louis, what reck I by thee, Or Geordie on his ocean? Dyvor, beggar loons to me— I reign in Jeannie’s bosom.
II.
Let her crown my love her law, And in her breast enthrone me. Kings and nations—swith, awa! Reif randies, I disown ye!