The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-03-05

6uQ oueCJln manner
When think ov thee, thou lovely dame,
feel so week and overcame,
That tears would burst from my eyelid,
Did not my stern manhood forbid;
For Tirzah Ann,
am a melancholy man.
sSOrn my looks-what are nu hats
TO such . wretch-or silk cravats;
Ny feelings prey to such extents
VIttles are Of no consequence
Oh, Tirzah Ann.
am q melancholy man.
As he waited on you. from spelin skool,
Ny anguish spurned all curb and rule,
My manhood cried be calm fOrbear!
Else should tore out my hair,
For Tirzah Ann
wuz melancholy man.
As walked behind, he little nu
What danger did his steps pursue;
had no dagger to uusheath,
But fercely did CRATE my teeth
For Tirzah Ann
wuz melancholy man.
I'm wasten slow my last years vests
Hang loose on me,--my nightly rests
Are thin as gauz-and thoughts Of u,
Clashes EN- madly through and through.
Oh Tirzah Ann,
am melancholy man.
My heart is In a burning state,
feel 1t soon must cOntgrate;
But ere GO to be ghost,
What bliss, cOudst thou tel me thou dest
Sweet Tirzah Ann,
Think of this melancholy man.
He didn't sing but piece more after this: !
don't remember the words, for 1t wuz a long
piece. Josiah insists that it wuz as long as
Millions Paradise Lost.
H., f,o
the piece
SEE he, II have hefted the book aud no the
size ov it-and L no 1t wuz as long, if not
lsnger." ..' ..
SEE 1, agin, in kool kollected manner, don't
be a fool, Josiah, there wuzent more than % or
80 verses a. the outside" That wuz when we
wuz talkin it over to the breakfast table, this
mornin, but konfess it did seem awful long,
there III the ded Ov mite; though L wouldn't en-
kourage Josiah by sayin so, he loves to have his
own he'd now, and don't no what he would be
if L encouraged him in it. / cant remember the
words as herd en- but the korus of each verse
wuz:
Oh ] languish for thee--Oh ! . angush for thee,
Wherever that be.
Oh ! oh oh am languishcd for thee-I am Ian
gushing for thee"
As sed, I never sot much store by Augustus
ieeulcR; put traly, everybody mas their strong
pints. There wuz quavers put in there into them
''ohs" that never can be put in agin by anybody
even Josiah lay motionless, lstenin to EN- in a
kind ov awe. Just then we heard Thomas JEFF
ferson speakin out ov the winder overhead
"My musikel young trend, haven't languish-
ed enutf for one mite because it u have, father,
and mother and I, bein kept awake by 9TH
er serenaders the forepart ov the mite, will love
to excuse you-will thank u for your labers il,
our behaff-and love to bid good evenin; Tir.
zah ben fast asleep in the other end ov the
house. But don't let me hurry you, Augustus
If II hant languished enough, u keep rite on
| languishing. hope / haint hard hearted enough
to deny young man, and a naber, the privilege
| ov languiship."
hurd round ov footsteps on the grass, un
der our winder, follered, seeminly instantaneous
ly by the ratlin ov the bord fence at the extrem
ity ov the garden indgin from tho sound, hi
must have got over the ground at a rate seldom
equled, and never outdone. A button wuz found
under the wiuder, in the Inornin--bust oft, W;
suppose, by the impashioued beets of 2 arden
heart, md y 2 vehement pare ov lungs; exer
cised much by the boldness and variety o,
the quavers lurin tho last tunc--that butte,
and fu locks ov malta fur is all we have left t
remind us ov our sufferns.