The Humour of America: Selected, with an Introduction and Index of American Humorists
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The Humour of America: Selected, with an Introduction and Index of American Humorists
American wit and humor
_A LOST CHILD._
YE CRYER.
_Here’s a reward for who’ll find Love!
Love is a-straying
Ever since Maying;
Hither and yon, below, above,
All are seeking Love!_
YE HAND-BILL.
_Gone astray_—between the Maying
And the gathering of the hay,
_Love_, an urchin ever playing—
Folk are warned against his play.
How may you know him? by the quiver,
By the bow he’s wont to bear.
First on your left there comes a shiver,
Then a twinge—the arrow’s there.
By his eye of pansy colour,
Deep as wounds he dealeth free;
If its hue have faded duller,
’Tis not that he weeps for me.
By the smile that curls his mouthlet;
By the mockery of his sigh;
By his breath, a spicy South, let
Slip his lips of roses by.
By the devil in his dimple;
By his lies that sound so true;
By his shaft-string, that no simple
Ever culled will heal for you.
By his beckonings that embolden;
By his quick withdrawings then;
By his flying hair, a golden
Light to lure the feet of men.
By the breast where ne’er a hurt’ll
Rankle ’neath his kerchief hid—
_What?_ you cry; _he wore a kirtle?_
Faith! methinks the rascal did!
_Here’s a reward for who’ll find Love!
Love is a-straying
Ever since Maying;
Hither and you, below, above,
I am seeking Love._
ye Finder pray’d
to Bring her to
Master Corydon,
_Petticoat Lane_.
CRYER: H. BUNNER,
GRUB STREET,
CRY’S WEDDINGS,
BURYINGS, LOFT
CHILDN, AND RIGHT
CHEAPLIE.
YE IID. KNOCKER.
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_AMONG THE SPIRITS._
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