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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.
Nero Wuz Injeana's in that dredful hour Thou wust made guvner, and got the power To rool the Dimokrasy uv that noble Stait! Mournin will not avale! but O, hed Dan- iel Voorhees Dost think that the Gorriller The help he hed when fust the war began? Inscribin “No Coershun” on his banner, Bold Daniel wood hev let no man enlist, 'Cept sech ez wood, in Suthern ranks, assist In rightin things in a constooshnel manner.
The Golden Cirkle wood hev growd in vigger, No sneekin provo-marshels wood hev vext us, No horrer-spredin drafts wood e'er hev tetcht us; Wich drags us 4th, a fightin for the nigger. And then Ristine and Athon, and a skore Uv sich-like patriots, wood hev rooled the Stait; And Dodd, the grate, wood not now cuss his fate, A hopelis exel on a furrin shoar. Teers ain't uv no akkount! but, O. P., take my cuss, Ez stingin hot ez helpless hate kin make it; A thirst for venjence with no chance to slake it; Hopeless and helpless! kin a fate be wuss? [The last stanzy, wich contanes the cuss—after Moore.] May all yer roses turn 2 ashes 'fore yer eyes— May all yer whisky turn 2 camfene on yer lip— May all yoo hope for frum yer fingers slip, Jest ez yoo think yoo 've got sekoor the prize. * Nero wuz a Emprer uv Rome—so ornery that dorgs hev alluz bin † Daniel Voorhees is a troo Dimekrat, who resides in Terry Hut. In ‡ Goriller—wich is A. Linkin, uv coarse. To give force to the line, I
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]. |