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Before the threat And dismal cold gray of mourning Came the sun.…

Now O Lord please lend thine ear, The prayer of the Cattleman to hear; No doubt many prayers to thee seem strange, But won't you bless this cattle range?…

On Freedom By Thomas S. Sidney, aged 12 Years October 21st, 1828…

Adam lay ibounden, Bounden in a bond. Four thousand winter Thoght he not too long.…

The little Man, and tiny Maid, Who love the Fairies in the glade, Who see them in the tangled grass The Gnomes and Brownies, as they pass,…

Lyth and lystyn, gentilmen, All that nowe be here; Of Litell Johnn, that was the knighes man, Goode myrth ye shall here.…

Aladdin poor the wizard found, Who moved from cavern’s mouth a stone; Then bade him go beneath the ground, And pace through unknown realms alone,…

An hendy hap ichabbe yhent; Ichot, from hevene it is me sent; From alle wymmen mi loue is lent, And lyght on Alysoun.…

A Slave sold at Auction. A time there was, when no one thought It sin, to hold a slave he'd bought, And of his strength have the command,…

The falcon soars The town's gates are even higher Angelica's their doorkeeper…

Yankee Doodle had a mind To whip the Southern traitors, Because they didn't choose to live On codfish and potatoes,…

Legs I have got, yet seldom do I walk; I backbite many, yet I never talk: In secret places most I seek to hide me, For he who feeds me never can abide me.

Last night as I toasted My wet feet and roasted A small bit of beef by a similar blaze, While nought but the wheezings,…

Come all ye bondmen far and near, Let's put a song in massa's ear, It is a song for our poor race, Who're whipped and trampled with disgrace.…

Now sit thee down, Melpomene, Wrapp'd in a sea-coal robe, And tell the doleful tragedy That late was play'd at Globe;…