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Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1866], Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby. (R. W. Carroll & Co., Cincinnati) [word count] [eaf631T].

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C. SONNIT-2 HANNER ANN.

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RITTEN AT THE AGE UV 17, UNDER A STAIT UV HIGH
MENTLE EGGSITEMENT.

Sweet sample case uv loveliness! O, paragon!
From nite wuz stol'n the color uv thy eyes and kurls;*
Thy skin from alibaster, and thy teeth from pearls,
You 'm all the graces, melted in2 one.
It 's pure presumpshun, Hanner, I 'm afrade,
For me to cast my eye so fur above me;
But, sweet wun, ef yoo wait for wun to love ye,
Whose worthy uv ye—ah! you 'll die a maid.†
My love 's a little stream, a runnin all alone;
Yoors is another—now, sweet maid, let 's say
That Hymen's matrimonial spade shel dig away
The bank atween us, and the 2 unite in one!
Wat happinis! Wat goy! The dreem sets me afire,
Sweet Hanner, make it real, and then let me expire!‡
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* By this the reeder will immejitly perseeve her hair and eyes is
black. They is black—blacker nor the “the staitly raving uv the days
uv yore,” ez Poe remarkt.

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† This compliment, so deliketly and artfully interdoost, wuz intendid
ez a staggrer. While her sooperiority over all others is conceded, while
she plooms herself on the acknollijment, the hidjus prospek uv her dyin
a old maid is brot to her mind's eye.

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‡ In the eckstatik strane—yooseful before marriage, but uv no akkount
after. People wood be drivlin ijeots 2 be willin to die, jest ez ther hopes
wuz realized.

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Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888 [1866], Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby. (R. W. Carroll & Co., Cincinnati) [word count] [eaf631T].