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A New Song

...fair? 

If Turner remitted my bluster and rhymes, 
If Hardind was girlish and cold, 
If never an ogle was got from Miss Grimes, 
If Flavia was blasted and old; 

I chose without liking, and left without pain, 
Nor welcomed the frown with a sigh; 
I scorned, like a monkey, to dangle my chain, 
And paint them new charms with a lie. 

Once Cotton was handsome; I flam'd and I burn'd, 
I died to obtain the bright queen; 
But when I beheld my epistle return'd, 
By Jesu it alter'd t...Read more of this...
by Chatterton, Thomas


No Sunday Chicken

...I could have sold him up because
 His rent was long past due;
And Grimes, my lawyer, said it was
 The proper thing to do:
But how could I be so inhuman?
 And me a gentle-woman.

Yet I am poor as chapel mouse,
 Pinching to make ends meet,
And have to let my little house
 To buy enough to eat:
Why, even now to keep agoing
 I have to take in sewing.

Sylvester is a widowed man,
 Clerk in a hardware store;
I guess he does the ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Old Grimes

...Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,     We ne'er shall see him more;He used to wear a long brown coat     All buttoned down before....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

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