“Oh let who will, Oh let who can, Be tied onto A horrid male man. Thus said I ’ere My tendah heart was touched, Thus said I ’ere My tendah feelings gushed. But oh a change Hath swept ore me, As billows sweep The ‘deep blue sea.’ A voice, a noble form, One day I saw; An arrow flew, My heart is nearly raw. His first pardner lies Beneath the turf, He is wandering now, In sorrow’s briny surf. Two twins, the little Deah cherub creechahs, Now wipe the teahs From off his classic feachahs. Oh sweet lot, worthy Angel arisen, To wipe teahs From eyes like hisen.” “What think you of it?” says she, as I finished readin’. I looked right at her most a minute with a majestic look. In spite of her false curls, and her new white ivory teeth, she is a humbly critter. I looked at her silently while she sot and twisted her long yellow bunnet-strings, and then I spoke out. “Hain’t the editer of the _Augur_ a widower with a pair of twins?” “Yes,” says she with a happy look. Then says I, “If the man hain’t a fool, he’ll think you are one.” “Oh!” says she, and she dropped her bunnet-strings, and clasped her long bony hands together in her brown cotton gloves, “Oh, we ahdent soles of genious have feelin’s, you cold, practical natures know nuthing of, and if they did not gush out in poetry we should expiah. You may as well try to tie up the gushing catarack of Niagara with a piece of welting cord, as to tie up the feelin’s of an ahdent sole.” “Ardent sole!” says I coldly. “Which makes the most noise, Betsey Bobbet, a three-inch brook, or a ten-footer? which is the tearer? which is the roarer? deep waters run stillest. I have no faith in feelin’s that stalk round in public in mournin’ weeds. I have no faith in such mourners,” says I. “Oh, Josiah’s wife, cold, practical female being, you know me not; we, are sundered as fah apart as if you was sitting on the North Pole, and I was sitting on the South Pole. Uncongenial being, you know me not.” “I may not know you, Betsey Bobbet, but I do know decency, and I know that no munny would tempt me to write such stuff as that poetry and send it to a widower with twins.”