The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-27
do u will find yourself mistaken" Sez
/, "Do be still"
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never tnOuSnt much OV Augustus rec
dick, he is Thomas Jefferson's age, about
II, his mustash is if possible thinner
than hissen, I should say whiter-oniy
that is impossibility. tie is jest the
age when he wants to be older, and when
folks willin he should, for Il don't want
to call him Mr.. Peedick, and to call him
bub as alwyys have, he takes as ded-
ly insult. He thinks he is in love with
Tirzah which is jest as bad as long as it
lasts, ez il he wuz-jest as painful to him,
and to her. As I said he sung these
words in q mournful and affectin manner.
When l think ov thee thou lovely damo,
feel so weak and overcame,
That tears would burst from my eyelid,
Did not my stern manhood forbid
For Tirzah Ann,
I am a nlelankolly man.
skorn my looks-what are nu hats
To such wretch-or silks cravats;
My feelins prey to such e1tents
Vittles are of no consequence;
Oh Trzah Ann,
am a melankolly man.
AS he waited on you from spellin skool
My anguish spurned all curb and rule,
My manhood cried be calm forbear!
Else I should have tore out my hair,
For TirZah Ann
wuz melancholy man.
As I walked behind he little nu,
What danger did hi, steps pursue;
i had no dagger to unsheath,
But fiercely did crate my teeth.
----- For Tirzah Ann
1,wuz . melancholy 7man.
iTm.wasten slow, my last years vests,
Hang loose OH me-my nightly rests
Are thin as gauze-and thoughts ov u,
Gashes EN- madly through and through.
,-,, Oh TrZah Ann, rr
lam melancholy man.
My heart is in such burning state,
feel it soon must configrite;
But ere / go to be COST,
What bliss, couldst thou tel me thou dost
Sweet Tirzah Ann,
Think of this melankolly man.
He didn't sing but l piece more after
this. / don't remember the words for it
wuz long piece. Josiah insists that it
wuz as long as Millions Paradise Lost.
Sez | "dent be q fool Josiah never
read it."
Sez he 81 hev hefted tho book and no
the size ov it-aud no it wuz as long If
not longer"
Sez I agin, in kool kollected manner
be fool Josiah, there wuzzent
more than Is or 80 verses at the outside" !"
That wuz when We wuz talkin it over to
the breakfast table this mornin, but 1
konfess it did seem awful long, there in
the ded ov mite; though 1 wouldn't en-
courage josiah by sayin so, he loves to
have his own he'd now, and l don't no
Whist he would be if l encouraged him in
it. I cant. remember the words as 1 red,
but the korus oy each verse wuz-
"oh ! languish fer thee-oh!! I lansuish
for thee,
Wherever that be
Oh, oh !! oh! am languishin for thes-I
am languishin for thee"
As I sed / never sot much store by
Augustus Peedick, but truely everybody
haz their strong pints, there wuz quavers
put in there into them "ohs !' that never
can be put in again by anybody-even
Josiah lay motionloss listenin to EN- in q
kind ov awe. Jest then we herd Thomas
Jefferson speakin out ov the winder over
he'd
''My musikel young friend haYn't u
languished enuff for one mite becaus if u
have, father and mother and I bein kept
awak by other serenaders the forepart ov
the mite. will love to excuse you-will
thank u for your labers in our behalf
and love to bid u good evenin; Tirzah
bein fast asleep in the other end ov the
house. But don't let me hurry Angus
tus-if u haint languished enough-u
keep rite on g languishen-I hope 1
haint hard harted enuff to deny young
man and naber, the privilege oy Ian
guishin."
I hurd sound Of footsteps on the grass
under the winder, follered seeminly in
simultaneously by the rattlin ov the bord
fence at the extremity ov the garden,
judgin from the sound he must have got
over the ground at rate seldom equiled
and never outdun. A button wuz found
under the winder in the mornin-bust off
we suppose by the impashioned beets of
q 2 ardent heart-and 2 vehement pare
ov lungs exercised 2 much by the bold
ness and variety oy the auavers durin the
last tune-that button and fu locks ov
malta fur is all we tav lett to remind us
ov our sufferins.- Peterson's Magazine.