payin' place.)_

The country I love stands up in her pride,

_(That's so. He's right this time.)_

With a diadem on her brow;

_(Referring probably to what SUMNER calls the "dire Democracy.")_

Oh! why did she flatter my boyish pride?

_(Because she wanted men; that's all.)_

She is going to leave me now!

_(By no means. He can play his organ on the corner as long as he wants
to.)_

She took me away from my child and wife,

_(That was all right enough. He couldn't take his wife and child into
camp.)_

And gave me a shoddy suit;

_(Entirely the fault of the contractors.)_

I quite forgot my good old life,