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Reflections,Upon receiving a copy of my First Pot.m publishedin the Newspaper.. » ’ ; • ^Ahlhereitis! I'm famous .bow,—. * * * 'Ail author and a poet! .It really is in print! ye Gods!How proud I'll be to show it!Aod gentle Anna! What a thrillWill animate her breast,* ' • ' wTo read those ardent line* and HtnowTo whom they are addressed.%i • • .. * %• f• 4 .• 9Wliy, bles* my soul! here's something strange;W hat can the; paper mean,By talking of. the ‘ graceful brooks That gander o'er the greene 'And her'es ar instead of-a.Which makes it‘tippling rill;'‘We'll seek the shad- instead of'shade/And‘hell* instead of‘hill/ • • i ‘ \: i 1 .. . : - - . -. •^ i• ' * . A ' I‘They look so*—what! I recollect,'Twas ‘sweet' and then 'twas kind /And now think; the stupid fool,For/bland’ has printed ‘blind/Was ever such provoking work-—'Tis,curious, by the by—How anything is rendered blindBy giving it anye.4f m •P‘Hast tfcou no tears/ the t’s left out,‘Hast thou no ears/ instead;I hope that thou art dear/ is put ‘I hope that thou art dead/■ rWhoever saw in such a spaceSo many blunders crammed!'Those gentle eyes bedimmed' is spelt•Those gentle eyes bedamned/• » •‘The color'of the rose’ is 'nose,'‘Affection* is affliction/I wonder if the likeness holds,Iu fact as well as fiction?■ • 9‘Thou art a friend / the a is gone;Who ever would have deemed That such a trifling thing could changeA ‘friend'into a‘fiend!*' Thou art the same' is rendered ‘lame/It really is too bad;And here, because an i* is out.My ‘lovely maid* is ‘mad/They drove her blind by poking inAh aye—a process new;And now they've gouged it out again.And made her crazy, too.‘Where are the muses fled, that thou Shouldst live so long unsung!'Thus read ray version—here it is~» ‘Shouldstlive so long unhung/‘The fate of woman's love is thine/AndH commences ‘fate/
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Washington Weekly Telegraph
Washington, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 01, 1861
Page 4
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