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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]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
IT BEIN THE ONLY WUN THAT HEZ ESCAPED THE REQUIREMENTS Price uv a stumick-warmer! thou art very lonely, One by one thy brethrin brite hev fled; Thou one brite ray upon my course shel shed; One nip thou 'lt bring, and, wo is me, one only! Time wuz wen I dispized thee, frackshun uv a dime; Time wuz I bathed my too fastijus lips Deep in the nectar sweets uv 10-cent nips, And thot my pile wuz endlis ez old Time. Ez all hev gone, so now shalt thou go, too— Then appetite must e'en depend on face; Cheek must uv capital assoom the place, And furnish stumick; and wen tick won't do, Farewell, all hope!—I 'll rush upon my doom, And in camphene my star shel set in gloom. * This sonnit wuz written afore the late crooel war, wen strate drinks
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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