“Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.”

—  Thomas Haynes Bayly

Welcome me Home, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer 1797–1839

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