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Brown's Descent

by Frost, Robert

...wn like a coasting child.

“Well—I—be—” that was all he said,
 As standing in the river road,
He looked back up the slippery slope
 (Two miles it was) to his abode.

Sometimes as an authority
 On motor-cars, I’m asked if I
Should say our stock was petered out,
 And this is my sincere reply:

Yankees are what they always were.
 Don’t think Brown ever gave up hope
Of getting home again because
 He couldn’t climb that slippery slope;

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