Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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THE POPULAR SONG,
"The washwoman sings it all wrong." MATILDY'S BEAU, "I recollect I spent an hour a-tyin' my cravat." MY OLD GRAY NAG, "He ain't the sort that the big-bugs sport" MAY MEMORIES, "Oh, the lazy days of boyhood, when the world was fair and new!" NINETY-EIGHT IN THE SHADE, "Collar kerflummoxed all over my neck." NOVEMBER'S COME, "Hey, you swelled-up turkey feller!" THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER, "The Grasshopper wore his summer clothes, And stood there kicking his frozen toes." THE LIGHT-KEEPER, "It seems ter me that's all there is: jest do your duty right." "THE REG'LAR ARMY MAN," "They ain't no tears shed over him When he goes off ter war." |
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