AMERICAN ODES AND SONNETS.
ow’d 2 BILLY SIIAKXPEKE, I’OIT, ETSETRA. Owe! nobil barde! moste gorgus ! dadv Ov awl the poits. 3 hundred jeers hav Xmn & gon sinse you Ist apeered Among us, like a blnzin comit in the Ski. Potcry biznis was mity dull, bily, M lien you Ist went into it; but ynl doo; \ uv maid yur x fur awl time, if not Longer. Owe ! imortil wilum, when yu Rote robisin Kruso and Jak the Giant Filer did no vizuns or futur faim don On yur enlitened mind ? WTicnyu Had akomplished yur lierkuloan ' Task dident yu feel like turnin noomcrus Bak somersets and ask in awl bands to Drink ? Did yu ever iniagin that after Yu had left this muudain sfero yud b Kum grate & famus, and B tawked about Lik dik Turpin or the Honribl ruikel Foley / Awl hale! poelick poit, yur a Brik and no mistak. But yu dident Live A long enuif, billy. Yu owe 2 B Livin now. Nowz a time fur a man Op yur extraordinary talents. But yu dide Ded bily, & so “ requeeskat in peas.” SOXNET TO X’KESIDEKT LIXCOLX. Grait Magistral ; that gits up in the nito All full ov Cair, & rites for sevevil Ours Stidcly, and Meditaits with all Ids powrs— A try-in all the while to doo wot’s rite to put a Stop to this unplesent Fite : Youm all the peple wants, Great Magistral! Your Eglc Tews you aint afaid to slait, & you doant cair a cus for no man’s spite! Ther aint a Patrit onywers but wot Knows youro a dooin jest what ho wood doo— Perviding lie was down ther on the spot & had the mind to see throo things like yoo, Sum Pratrit only ses your projick may do—but that bccos you know so much more’n wot, they doo. A. Ward, New York. —York Post.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 192, 16 September 1864, Page 2 (Supplement)
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307AMERICAN ODES AND SONNETS. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 192, 16 September 1864, Page 2 (Supplement)
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