Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
The Butcher's Courtship
"On, my Mary Ann," he side,
" Will you be my loving bride ? I cannot liver 'nother day without you.
Your bright smile lights up my heart,
Whisper yes, beefore we part, And the tenderlines of love I'll cast about you!"
Then the rascal, growing bolder,
Drew her head upon his shoulder, While the ribbones on her bonnet fluttered free,
And fore-quarter of an hour
They reclined within the bower, And she promised him she ever true would be.
" Now," says he, " I must be goin'—
Don't you hear the cattle loin ? I can tarry here no longer, love, to-day;
You can steak a silver dollar
I shall be a steady caller; Keep your pluck and spirits up while I'm away!"
Then he turned to cross a mead Where the horned cattle feed,
And wasn't paying very much attention To the gender of the herd, When there suddenly occurred
An accident he fain would never mention.
He chanced to look a round, When towards him, with a bound, Came their masculine protector o'er the lea;
And so brisket seemed to him That his chance was rather slim To flank him, or to even shin a tree.
He was bull dosed, so to speak,
Sorely rumpled, cowed and weak, And will steer hereafter clear from bulls and cows.
The tail, alas! is sad;
Would'st shun a bull that's mad ? Then beware the quick contraction of his browse!
poem
by
Charles Follen Adams
from
Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems
solid border
dashed border
dotted border
double border
groove border
ridge border
inset border
outset border
no border
blue
green
red
purple
cyan
gold
silver
black