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William Riley, 6aabb, 7: Eloping with Polly Ann, he is brought back to trial by her irate father, is defended by an aged lawyer, is transported, and departs wearing the maiden's ring.

From A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Combs, Josiah Henry

Apart from these thrusts edged with personal bitterness, William Watson possesses a rarely used vein of ironical wit that immediately recalls Byron, who might himself have written some of the stanzas in The Eloping Angels.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon