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Miss Corbett

  • “I never liked the landsman's life, / The earth is aye the same; / Gi'e me the ocean for my dower, / My vessel for my hame. / Gi'e me the fields that no man ploughs, / The farm that pays no fee ...”

    • Miss Corbett,
    • "We'll Go to Sea No More," in Mary Russell Mitford, Recollections of a Literary Life, vol. 2 ()

Miss Corbett, English poet

(19th cent.)