Talk:Phoebe Cary

The Lovers, by Phoebe Cary
An amusing example (no copyright violation, I guess). Pietnoll (talk) 02:29, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sally Salter, she was a young teacher who taught,
 * And her friend, Charley Church, was a preacher who praught,
 * Though his enemies called him a screecher who scraught.


 * His heart, when he saw her, kept sinking and sunk,
 * And his eye, meeting hers, began winking, and wunk;
 * While she, in her turn, kept thinking, and thunk.


 * He hastened to woo her, and sweetly he wooed,
 * For his love grew until to a mountain it grewed,
 * And what he was longing to do then he doed.


 * In secret he wanted to speak, and he spoke,
 * To seek with his lips what his heart long had soke;
 * So he managed to let the truth leak, and it loke.


 * He asked her to ride to the church, and they rode;
 * They so sweetly did glide that they both thought they glode,
 * And they came to the place to be tied, and were toed.


 * Then homeward, he said, let us drive, and they drove,
 * And as soon as they wished to arrive, they arrove,
 * For whatever he couldn't contrive, she controved.


 * The kiss he was dying to steal, then he stole;
 * At the feet where he wanted to kneel then he knole;
 * And he said, "I feel better than ever I fole."


 * So they to each other kept clinging, and clung,
 * While Time his swift circuit was winging, and wung;
 * And this was the thing he was bringing, and brung:


 * The man Sally wanted to catch, and had caught;
 * That she wanted from others to snatch, and had snaught;
 * Was the one that she now liked to scratch, and she scraught.


 * And Charley's warm love began freezing, and froze,
 * While he took to teazing, and cruelly toze
 * The girl he had wished to be squeezing, and squoze.


 * "Wretch!" he cried, when she threatened to leave him, and left,
 * "How could you deceive me, as you have deceft?"
 * And she answered, "I promised to cleave, and I've cleft."

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