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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.
I 've cum 2 a conclooshen. I 'm satisfide that Ohio! Pensilwany! Injeany! Pennsilwany is cussid, Ohio is cusseder, but Injeany
Weep, O my people, for lo! the hind sites is Gnash yer teeth, for the staits we counted on Tare yer hair, for Voorhees is beet. Throw ashes on yer hed, for little sam cox is Array yerself in shoddy, for we 're all gone up. Ef sich is dun in the green tree, wat will it be I am a fountain uv lamentations—they run Can we look 2 the South for comfort? Nay, For Atlanta is gone, and Lee rageth in vain, And Linkin, and Grant, and Sherman, and Sheridan But their mirth is our wo, their meat is our Can we look to the North? Not any; for that is Wher is the post-offisis? Wher is the collekterships, To the East we stretch our hands, and Maine
To the West we turn, and Injeany pops it to We bot revolvers in that Stait, and lo! we We are a dove, a peece dove, shoved out uv the And the deluge uv Ablishnism rageth wildly, And we air weery, but kin find no place to rest Bestir thyself, O Lee! if yoo wood save us in On yoo we bet our pile; yoo are our anker and We preech in vane that the war is a faleyoor, Be valiant, for gold is goin down, and goods is Whale Grant jist wunst, and give us wun more Lift us out uv the pit in2 wich we hev fallen— Then will our wailins be turned to joy, and our Paster uv sed Church, in charge.
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]. |