IN FOLK SONGS 



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friends, to carry sighs and 



notes — and sometimes 



the petitioner himself! 



The Spanish 



youth of the 



Province of 



Galicia, where 



rest the bones 



of Saint James, asks only that she carry a 

 sigh in her gentle little beak : — 



Oh ! Thou who far away dost fly, 

 Away to shores less bleak ; 

 Carry to my love a sigh. 

 In thy gentle beak. 



