Fugitive Poetry. 1600–1878/Index of First Lines
Index of First Lines.
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A bard there was in a sad quandary
535
A bailiff once, a sentimental man
563
A boy, as nursery records tell
484
A certain Viceroy in the Emerald Isle
485
A Chancellor who in every case
483
A chap once told St. Patrick's dean
443
A country schoolmaster named Jonas Bell
435
A crown of glory bright
23
A cunning wit, but graceless sinner
479
A few years since, at some provincial college
480
A friend of mine was married to a scold
442
A governess wanted—well fitted to All
460
A horse-dealer, famed for nags with long tails
474
A humble votary of the tuneful nine
315
A maiden walked at eventide
268
A man whose name was Johnny Sands
508
A member of the modern great
564
A poor simple foreigner, not long ago
473
A pretty Irish boy whose parents went
514
A sacred grief sublime and bright
233
A shadow moving by one's side
75
A soldier, a soldier, a soldier for me
347
A supercilious nabob of the East
482
A wealthy gentleman in Hertfordshire
524
Above—below—where'er I gaze
15
Accursed be the hour I ventured to roam
141
Adieu, my native land, adieu!
406
After the sleep of night as some still lake
289
Ah! bury me deep in the boundless sea
238
Ah! cruel death that dost no good
570
Ah! there it falls and now 'tis dead
181
Ah! would I were in Araby
333
Alas! the days of chivalry are fled
427
All quiet along the Potomac they say
302
Alone, I am in this sequestered spot not overheard
533
An Austrian army awfully arrayed
504
An Irishman fishing one day in the Liffey
459
An Irishman travelling, though not for delight
458
An old man sits in a high-backed chair
277
An thon were my ain thing
357
Another week has passed away
27
Anormus structnr! whar, I'd like to know
539
Arise and come wi' me, my love
361
Art thou weary, little Minnie?
287
As Dick and Tom in fierce dispute engage
564
As I walked by myself I said to myself
567
As Jenny sat down wi' her wheel by the fire
354
As lately a sage on fine bam was repasting
562
As lately returned from the Isles of the West
513
As Patie cam' up frae the glen
365
As the rose of the valley when dripping with dew
568
At a public school by chance there were two lads
563
At midnight, on my lonely beat
284
Auld Rob, the laird o' muckle land
360
Ay! ay! I thocht it wad come to this at the last
296
Ay, here such valorous deeds were done
528
Bard of our hearts, beheld again on earth!
317
Be kind to the old man, while strong in thy youth
92
Be kind to thy father, for when thou wast young
91
Be Thou, O God! by night and day
19
Beautiful are the waves that flow
318
Behind the Ochils' verdant range
257
Behold how in time all things come even
578
Behold my Servant. I see him rise
30
Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull
130
Behold what witnesses unseen
37
Beneath the earth, in her lonely caves
412
Beneath a sleeping infant lies
573
Beneath this stone a mouldering virgin lies
571
Beside the river's blink
47
Bide your time! the morn is breaking
116
Blest hour of childhood! then, and then alone
93
Bold infidelity turn pale and dye
572
Borne on the mighty billows of the tide
294
Brave sons of the mountain, to battle away
413
Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn
349
Bring me flowers all young and sweet
553
Busy, curious, thirsty fly
362
By the shore a plot of ground
226
Can it be true? so fragrant and so fair
194
Careless and thoughtless all my life
570
Centuries have rolled on centuries, years on years
314
Child of the latter days! thy words have broken
425
"Child!" said the bard, "dost thou wander now
442
Chloe, a maid at fifty-five
461
Christian! seek not yet repose
77
Close by the borders of a fringèd lake
202
Come away, come, sweet love!
329
Come, brethren, don't grow weary
21
Come bustle, bustle, drink about
342
Come, gentle twilight, come
179
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
25
Come home
244
Come lassies and lads, get leave of your dads
335
Come, Leila, fill the goblet up
568
Come, lovely, gentle peace of mind
94
Come, my brother, nearer, nearer
546
Count not the days that have idly flown
132
Come pledge me! see the sparkling glass
420
Dark clouds are hurrying through the sky
152
Dear Bums, unkind I lo'e your lays
315
Dear girl, I send my love to thee
542
"Dear Mary," said the poor blind boy
280
Dear mother, your anger to soften
423
Death at a cobbler's door oft made a stand
573
Death is a fisherman—the world we see
571
Deep! I own I start at shadows
463
Delightful hour of sweet repose
86
Each rising charm the boundless stream bestows
211
Emblem of Him that made thee, source of light
156
Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade
570
Ever lovely and benign
54
Faint and listless in its cradle
288
Fairer than thee, beloved!
328
Fare thee well, thou fitful dream
149
Farewell, my auld, an' trusty frien'
434
Farewell to a' our Scottish fame
402
Father of all, eternal mind
17
Father of all I Eternal mind
18
Father of love and power
39
Father, Thy will, not mine, be done
19
Feathered lyric! warbling high
201
Five hundred dollars I have saved
539
Fly postman, with this letter run
535
Forester! leave thy woodland range
87
Forth from his cell of frost hoar Winter comes
177
Fortune men say doth give too much to many
561
Four-and-twenty groomsmen all in a row
537
Frank Hayman once, a brother of the brush
471
Frequently whining, and always repining
450
From universal suffrage some
541
Frozen to death, so young and fair
298
Gently blow and stir the fire
430
Gently, gently, fall sweet sleep
78
George King to King George makes his humble petition
537
Gin I had a wee house, and a canty wee fire
368
Give out, give out thy silken folds
251
Go when the morning shineth
51
God is good, each perfumed flower
86
God of my sires! yon arch of blue
171
Half-unbelieving doth my heart remain of its great woe
549
Happy and free are a married man's reveries
451
Hail, and farewell, thou lovely guest
198
Hark! hear ye the sounds that the winds on their pinions
302
Hark! in the vale I hear the evening song
201
Hark! the hollow woods resounding
411
Harness me down with your iron bands
319
Hasten, love! the sun hath set
333
Have you any work for a tinker, mistress?
335
Have you sailed on the breast of the deep
221
He comes not—I have watched the moon go down
292
He left his native land and far away
65
Heard ye e'er o' our gudeman
502
Heard ye those loud contending waves
322
Heart gazing mournfully
137
Hence all ye vain delights
396
Here awa', there awa', here awa', Willie!
393
Here I come creeping, creeping, everywhere
195
Here in the grave there lies a Cave
575
Here lies a spotless child, profane one such
576
Here lies John Sullen; and it is God's will
577
Here lies one who for medicines would not give
572
Here lies the body of poor Frank Bowe
576
Here lies the man for aught we know
576
Here musing on the busy quay
294
Here's to the King, sir
350
fley the bonnie, how the bonnie
393
High quivering in the air, as shadows fly
165
High on the bare bleak hills the shepherd lies
170
His head is cold, his head is low
50
Ho! ye that thirst approach the spring
33
Hodge, a poor honest country lout
477
Hodge held a farm, and smiled content
476
How blest is he whose tranquil mind
121
How drear and awful is this solitude
183
How lovely is this silent scene
162
How lovely shines the liquid pearl
95
How now Joky—whither awaye?—
343
How oft enchanted have I stood
208
How painfully pleasing the fond recollection
83
How stands the glass around
345
How still and deep is the awful sleep
256
How strange is life, how changeful time!
102
How swift the pinions Time puts on
134
I A. B. do declare
538
I am far frae my hame, an' I'm weary aftenwhiles
88
I am old and blind
311
I ask not wealth;—the glittering toy
68
I beheld a golden portal in the visions of my slumber
89
I courted a fair maid for many a long day
381
I dreamt one night, not many months ago
452
I hae nae kith, 1 hae nae kin
403
I had a hat—it was not all a hat
487
I hate the very name of box
449
I have no mother! for she died
308
I have ships that went to sea
245
I heard that negro on his lowly bed
62
I knew a boy whose infant feet had trod
550
I knew my father's chimney top
244
I love to gaze upon the face
69
I love to sit upon some steep
224
I love to steal a while away
80
I mean to be a soldier
109
I met twa cronies late yestreen
353
I said to Sorrow's awful storm
82
I saw a maid let fall a tender tear
128
I see she flies me everywhere
332
I see the white sails of thy ship
417
I sing the Doers of the Word
139
I stood amid the glittering throng
425
I think it was a Persian king
440
I wish I were a little bird
107
If this delicious grateful flower
278
If upright souls in heaven are blest
575
If you cannot on the ocean
136
I'll gang nae mair to yon town
419
I'll prove the word that I have made my theme
475
I'll sing you a good old song
339
I'm a tough true-hearted sailor
394
I'm coming along with a bounding pace
172
I'm utterly sick of this hateful alliance
454
In a certain fair island, for commerce renowned
492
In a fair lady's heart once a secret was lurking
441
In a valley obscure, on a bank of green shade
192
In ancient times as songs rehearse
362
In Anster, long since, in the shire of Fife
522
In Broad Street Buildings on a winter's night
486
In debt, deserted, and forlorn
459
In earlier days, in happier hours
122
In glowing terms I would this day indite
431
In good King Charles' golden days
351
In hope a king doth go to war
129
In reverend guise this ancient pile survey
223
In schools of wisdom all the day was spent
72
In simple times when simple folks
374
In slumbers of midnight the sailor-hoy lay
415
In the east the shadows deepen
131
In the halls of Pompeii resounded the song
236
In the palace, in the cottage
134
In vain I lament what is past
448
In vast and boundless solitude he stands
560
Iron was his chest
563
Is solitude a burden to thy soul
127
It has been my lot in foreign lands
242
It is enough for crime to once begin
563
It is May! It is May!
170
It is not that I cannot see.
279
It is not youth can give content
566
It is the hour when winds and waves
159
It is their summer haunt:—a giant oak
118
It should be brief, if lengthy, it will steep
144
It was a' for our richtfu' king
404
It was about the feast of Christmas-tide
253
It was merry once in England
263
It's of a young lord o' the Hielands
386
It's very hard you must admit
457
I've been among the mighty Alps
268
I've pleasant thoughts which memory brings
131
I've plodded through life's weary way
574
I've ploughed my land, and sown it too
574
I've lost my friend, my dog, and wife
474
I've wandered far from thee, mother
299
Jack eating mitey cheese did say
566
Jack Dash, in town a first-rate beau
481
Jenny is poor, and I am poor
429
Jerusalem's curse was not fulfilled in me
571
Jocky said to Jenny, "Jenny wilt thou wed?"
505
Joe Wood, he was a carpenter
444
John Davidson and Tib his wife
436
Johnny", man, ye're gaun to dwall
446
Jolly shepherd, shepherd on a hill
329
Just as a mother with sweet pious face
58
Keep pushing—'tis wiser than sitting aside
138
Keep silence lest the rocks in thunder fall
215
Kind Peggy kissed her husband with these words
564
Knell of departed years!
60
Know'st thou the land where the hardy green thistle
228
Lady Bel, who in public bewails her dead spouse
565
Lady, the earnest smiles of living light
212
Lady! what cruel doom is thine
258
Land where the bones of our fathers are sleeping
79
Late in the evening forth I went
506
Late rideth Sir Olaff—fast fadeth the west
379
Let him who hates dancing ne'er go to a ball
562
Let others with poetic fire
489
Let this album brighLsouled maiden
145
Life's like an inn where travellers stay
577
Linger not long! Home is not home without thee
271
Listen! love of mine, O listen
271
Little shoes and stockings
286
Live well, die never
570
Long the sun hath gone to rest
26
Lord Endless walking to the Hall
513
Lord, give me freely to rejoice
40
Love dwells not in the sparkling blaze
421
Love me little, love me long
330
Love not me for comely grace
332
Love wove a chaplet passing fair
375
Lovely, lasting peace below
94
Madam, my debt to Nature paid
463
Mantled in storms:—attended by the roar
178
March the twenty-first! mark the day
264
Matches are made for many reasons
438
Men once were surnamed for their shape or estate
496
'Mid scattered foliage pale and sere
199
Mistakes are common all through life
519
Morn's earliest blush with frowning dyes
62
Mother, they say the stars are bright
281
My ain auld wife, oh! boo it cheers
291
My Beltane o' life and my gay days are gane
354
My boy refused his food, forgot to play
554
My chaise the village inn did gain
305
My country, o'er thy mountains wild
398
My day is dippin' in the west
296
My dear, what makes you always yawn
560
"My God!" the beauty oft exclaimed
81
My lad's a braw and bonnie lad
408
My Lilia gave me yester-morn
321
My love was born in Aberdeen
403
My sad tears flow and weep lost worth
550
My spouse and I full many a year
572
Mysterious plant! whose golden tresses wave
199
Nae mair in Cargen's woody glens
356
Nature hath done her part: do thou but thine
567
New England's annoyances: ye that would know them
300
Night hurrying sails away across the waters
157
No courtly halls for me
126
No sounds of labour vexed the quiet air
558
Not to be captious: not unjustly fight
567
Now departs day's garish light
193
O' a' the rants, o' a' the reels
390
O Allister McAllister
505
O Charlie is my darling
409
O dinna forget, lassie, dinna forget
356
O gin my love were yon red rose
392
O God who metest in Thine hand
16
O Kenmure's on and awa', Willie
407
O lady fair these silks of mine
67
O lintie, blythe-voiced I intie
189
O pateo tulis aras cale fel O
532
O Scotia! land of hill and dell
229
O sweet is Nature's quiet hour
255
O! the French are on the say
230
O Y R U so I C cold
527
Observe what wisdom shines in that decree
98
O'er economy some have such perfect command
473
Oh, could I find from day to day
22
Oh, firm as oak, and free from care
341
Oh, for a last look before I die
249
Oh, for the dreamless rest of those
21
Oh, nane I trow in a' the earth
111
Oh, she was bright and fair to see
327
Oh! stop not here ye sottish wights
470
Oh! tell me, mother, said a fair young child
107
Oh! they looked upward in every place
186
Oh, Thou who hast Thine altar made
57
Oh, 'tis a touching thing to make one weep
290
Oh, 'tis all one to me, all one
540
Oh, waken up, my darlin'—my Dermot, it is day
276
Oh! what a beautiful bit of mortality
500
Old Orpheus played so well
568
On a smooth grassy knoll by the murmuring shore
293
On earth, while onward Time doth roll
94
On Ettrick's banks in a summer night
359
On his deathbed poor Lubin lies
561
On Life's wild ocean, sorrowful and pained
570
On princely Kenilworth's romantic site
223
On Summer's breast the hawthorn shines
198
On the bank of a river was seated one day
101
On this cold flinty rock
407
Once did my thoughts both ebb and flow
499
Once more, thou radiant star.
160
Once on a time, a little French marquis
468
Once on a time, a son and sire we're told
503
One day Good-bye met How-d'ye-do
497
One eve of beauty when the sun
325
Only waiting till the shadows
36
Open now Thy gates of beauty
14
"One Prior!" and is this, this all the fame
567
Organs that gentlemen play, my boy
492
Our bodies are like shoes which off we cast
567
Our darling is baptized to-day
71
Our life is short and 'tis
576
Out from tower and from steeple rang the sudden New-Year bells
146
Pain was my portion
575
Perched on a rock and caged afar
237
Pity, my lord, the wretched plight
265
Play on, my little one! fair is thine hour
106
Poetry—Poetry!
309
Print, comrades, print: a noble task
313
Rab, when ye crack about the mire
316
Raise my pillow, husband, dearest
518
Reader, who gazing on this lettered stone
577
Remember me, when summer friends surround thee
273
Remember thy Creator now
25
Return, and come to God
43
Rise, ye Croats, fierce and strong
231
River, river, little river
74
Row weel, my boatie, row weel
355
Sad city of the silent place
235
Save when the sun's resplendent ray
133
Say, watchman, what of the night?
28
Say, why should friendship grieve for those?
73
See a pin, and pick it up
568
See how around the glowing flame
563
Shall they bury me in the deep?
545
Shall we all die?
571
She comes! she comes! with her flashing eyes
168
She is my only girl
282
Should Gaelic speech be e'er forgot?
445
Sieze thy pencil, child of art
325
Since our foes to invade us have long been preparing
340
Sleep soft in dust: wait the Almighty's will
573
Slept you well? "Very well." My draught did good
567
Some sing of roast beef, and some sing of kail brose
501
Some sing the peaceful pleasures of the plain
431
Some talk of Alexander
397
Something should remain unseen
116
Songster of the russet coat
202
Speak it not lightly! 'tis a holy thing
118
Spirit of God, that moved of old
12
Star of the evening! How I love to mark
159
Star of the morn, whose placid ray
29
Stay! traveller, stay! and hear me tell
377
Stately towers I blissful hours
338
Still nigh me, O my Saviour stand
43
Stop, pretty stranger, stop and see
190
Such little hopes I'd always found
460
Sweet evening hour! Sweet evening hour!
161
Sweet infant, when I gaze on thee
70
Sweet is the early dew
182
Sweet is the last, the parting ray
28
Sweet Sabbath of the year
176
Take a robin's leg
433
Take ye the world—thus, from his height sublime
495
Tell me, ye viewless spirits of the air
80
That autumn leaf is sere and dead
197
That setting sun—that setting sun
54
The barber shaves with polished blade
538
The brakes with golden flowers were crowned
218
The bud is on the bough, and the leaf is in the bud
167
The camp may have its fame, the Court its glare
269
The changing seasons, as they pass o'er earth
163
The chase is o'er, the hart is slain
417
The curling waves with awful roar
59
The day is past and gone
26
The dreamy night draws nigh
112
The dust flies fast through the murky air
465
The flight of years—how soft, how fleet!
135
The floor is of sand like the mountain drift
210
The frost looked forth one still clear night
184
The glorious heaven its golden tinting throws
166
The good ship Abeona
363
The grey hill and the purple heath
255
The Halcyon flew across the stream
203
The harp of the Poet is silent in death
546
The judgment was at hand. Before the sun
45
The lake is at rest, love
338
The last sand from Time's hour-glass
42
The leaves are falling from the trees
196
The lost days of my life until to-day
74
The loveliest flowers the closest cling to earth
187
The mariners with lightsome heart
203
The men could hardly keep the deck
267
The merchant tempts me with his gold
214
The moon's full splendour on the waveless sea
214
The morn that ushered thee to life, my child
565
The night was dark, and drear the heath
466
The Polar clouds uplift—a moment and no more
214
The poor man will praise it, so hath he good cause
346
The portals of the east divide
416
The promised seed is born, no Ishmael now
47
The Psalmist cried
76
The queen of night shone from her starred domain
543
The rich are poor, or vainly stored
44
The scene was more beautiful far to my eye
30
The sea, the sea, is England's
229
The ship is by the shore, my love
275
The skies like a banner in sunset unrolled
185
The smiling morn may light the sky
396
The solemn shadow that be'ars in his hands
103
The sparkling liquor fills the glass
415
The star of love on evening's brow hath smiled
191
The sun and season in each thing
168
The sun went down in beauty, but the eyes
220
The topsails shiver in the wind
414
The traveller plods his weary way
243
The tumult of battle had ceased high in air
556
The way seems dark about me
23
The winter has passed with its frowns away
166
The woods are stripped to the wintry winds
200
The world's a book writ by the eternal art
566
The world's a city full of crooked streets
577
The world at length this truth respects
516
The world of fairy, wreath, and song
150
The year is now declining, and the sir
174
There are fools of pretension and fools of pretence
494
There are twa bonnie maidens, and three bonnie maidens
368
There is a flower whose modest eye
195
There is a land amidst the waves
411
There is a parting in night's murky veil
178
There is a stream which issues forth
24
There is a tongue in every leaf
64
There is a wood which few dare tread
372
There is a world we have not seen
56
There is an hour of heavenly rest
20
There is an unseen power around
13
There is folly in all the world
114
There sat an owl in an old oak tree
204
There was an old farmer in Sussex did dwell
348
There's nothing here on earth deserves
530
There's nothing lost. The tiniest flower
97
Things of high import sound I in thine ear
105
This cool and fragrant hour of prime
52
This Indian weed now withered quite
475
This life is but a game of cards
128
This little spot is all our lot
576
This precious emblem well doth represent
568
Those eternal bowers
32
Thou art gane awa', thou art gane awa'
394
Thou art the Way, and he who sighs
85
Thou coloured winglet, floating in the ray
208
Thou desolate and dying year
175
Thou full-blown comely creature
191
Thou hidden love of God
40
Thou who scornest truth divine
79
Thoughts flit and flutter through the wind
313
Through the rugged march of time
143
Thursday in the morn, the Ides of May.
240
Thy hesitating tongue and doubtful face
564
Thy neighbour? It is he whom thou.
140
Till death I Sylvia must adore
331
Time is the changeful shore of life
61
'Tis a fitting time for Hope to die
422
'Tis a pleasant sight on a vernal day
188
'Tis a time of pride when the bark is prancing
419
'Tis said in a bower by fairy hands wrought.
213
'Tis summer, 'tis summer, the wild birds are singing
173
'Tis sweet to see the opening rose
59
To flourish in my favourite bower
332
To Him that loved the souls of men
39
To make your candles last for aye.
561
To see a lady of such grace
565
"To your homes," said the leader of Israel's host.
49
To-day man lives in pleasure, wealth, and pride
132
Tom Trout, by native industry, was taught
512
True wit is like the brilliant stone.
564
'Twas eve, the lengthening shadows of the oak
179
'Twas on a Monday morning
409
'Twas the Pentecost time of tournament
382
'Twas within a mile o' Edinburgh town.
358
Two children stood at their father's gate
219
Two lawyers when a knotty case was o'er
552
Undaunted in peril, and foremost in danger
410
Unknown, untended, and alone
123
Up with the sun in the morning
284
Upon a rock's extremest verge
210
Up! up! let us a voyage take
164
Voyager upon life's sea, to yourself be true
117
Wake from thy azure ocean bed
158
Wake when the mist of the blue mountains sleeping
84
Walk in the light and thou shalt own
19
We anxiously hallowed the frozen ground
544
We be three poor fishermen
412
We climb, we pant, wo pause: again we climb
215
We dance on hills above the wind
395
We miss her footfall on the floor
552
We saw Thee not when thou didst tread
41
We soldiers drink, we soldiers sing
346
We trill a hymn to the evening dim
216
We watch the summer leaves and flowers decay
174
Weep not over poet's wrong
310
Welcome on shore again
337
Welcome, welcome, feathered stranger
180
Wha the deil hae we gotten for a king
405
What a plague's a summer breakfast
430
What is a schoolmaster? why, can't you tell?
509
What is genius? 'Tis a flame
310
What is man's history? Born, living, dying
561
What is the body? fragile, frail
56
What knight of them all upon Palestine's plain
260
What others singly wish, age, wisdom, wealth
571
What pleasures have great princes
169
What strange enchantment meets my view
200
What though no flowers the fig-tree clothe
35
What though not thine the rose's brilliant glow
192
What's a' the steer, kimmer?
404
When dire disease obstructs the labouring breath
575
When Egypt's host God's chosen tribe pursued
566
When Abercromby, gallant Scot
400
When I was bound apprentice
348
When I was a schoolboy, aged ten
455
When is the time for prayer
53
When love and friendship both were young
128
When man and wife
518
When men of infamy to grandeur soar
566
When morning's first and hallowed ray
83
When, on the midnight of the East
33
When shall we three meet again?
297
When the King from France departing
239
When the tendrils of love once strike root in the heart
515
When this old cap was new
369
When you this letter C
535
Whence that completed form of all completenesss
212
Where hae ye been a' the day?
401
Where is he? ask his emblem
13
Where shall the child of sorrow find
266
Where the Northern Ocean in vast whirls
181
Whereas by you I have been hurled
503
Whereas I have by you been driven
531
Whether we smile or weep
133
While sojourning on earth, he filled up the measure
572
Whisper thou tree, thou lonely tree
391
Who curbs his appetite's a fool
534
Who killed Kildare? Who dared Kildare to kill?
575
Why is that graceful female here?
247
Why lovely insect dost thou stand?
182
Will ye gang wi'me, Lizzie Lindsay?
398
Willie Wag went to see Charlie Quirk
459
Wind the spell—bind the spell
324
Winter, thou daughter of the storm
295
With a prancing steed, and a sword of proof
334
With the deeds of noble Englishmen
261
Women are best when they're at rest
498
Would you choose a wife for a happy life
357
Wouldst thou be there to meet those long-lost faces
76
Wouldst wed for gold? seek yonder palace gate
119
Ye who the name of Jesus bear
36
Yes, farewell, farewell for ever
304
You cannot pay with money
124
You took me, Henry, when a girl, unto your home and heart
270
Your wife is beautiful and young
562
The End.
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