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Book: Sketches from Life in Dixie

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  • I know a sweet suburban girl,
    She's witty, bright and brief;
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  • Many and many a year ago
    I heard of those ancient rhymers,
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  • Down the long flight of years,
    With the fleet sweep of time,
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  • Oft in the hush of twilight,
    When the golden sunbeams die,
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  • I would not live always:
    I ask but to stay"
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  • I stood, when life was full of buoyant hope,
    At sunrise, in the vanished years now flown,
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  • Nannie, she is dearer far
    Than all the girls I know,
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  • As I strive to lift the burden,
      When intense becomes the strife,
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  • There's music in the rain,
    As on the roof it drops,
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  • I care not for the miser's gold,
    Nor increased acreage of lands;
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  • Come, tripping, tripping, tripping, oh,
    On the light fantastic toe;
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  • Many and many a merry day,
    Under the oak tree's shade,
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  • I saw sweep out of the unknown
    A worthy sunlit bark, alone,
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  • The pyramid through ages past,
    Through all their tempest, storm and blast,
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  • Think of the price of liberty,
    Think of the lash and slavery,
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  • Many aud many a year has gone
    Since I was cleared by Joe,
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  • There is a calm and solemn air
    Along the road, by garden fair,
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  • Yes, May and I are friends,
    Lovers, many have said;
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  • Wails, wails, wails,
    The wind from its ice bound thrones;
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  • Words are but leaves to the tree of mind;
    Where breezy fancy plays;
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  • I sought her in the woodland
    Where the dogwood blossoms blow,
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  • Life is a mysterious thing.
    It comes we know not whence,
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  • My Savior, in life's ebb and flow,
    In its turmoil, in its glow,
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  • No, the cold damp earth could not restrain thee,
    Nor the bleak north winds retard thy coming;
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  • I'm all alone in the world, now,
    My bonnie love has flown;
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  • They'll bring when we are dead, perchance,
    Some flowers from their garden, friend;
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  • Friend, must we part and part forever?
    The spell that bound our hearts is broke --
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  • Why did you not tell me your heart is stone,
    Where hope, nor joy, nor pleasures abide;
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  • Ere the banquet's over, love,
    And the stars are gone;
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  • \Suggested by the Assaults made on the Negro Soldiers as they passed through the south on their way to and from our war with Spain.\
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  • She is a woman, bright and trim,
    Of five and twenty years,
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  • A list of my beautiful things?"
    Well, have you seen my Evylin;
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  • With a shudder still I remember
    The alarm of Yellow Jack:
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  • Far away where the raging sea goes,
    In the islands of the sea,
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  • A fair dark-eyed lassie was she,
    Her thirteenth summer passed,
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  • The fairest thing on land or sea
    Is the Southern girl, to me.
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  • Ah, thou beautiful embellishment of earth,
    By dew, and rain, and dutiful spring hurled,
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