Classic Poem

When Lide married him--w'y, she had to jes dee-fy
The whole poppilation!--But she never bat' an eye!
Her parents begged, and threatened--she must give him up--that he
Wuz jes 'a common drunkard!'--And he wuz, appearantly.--
Swore they'd chase him off the place
Ef he ever showed his face--
Long after she'd eloped with him and married him fer shore!--
When Lide married him, it wuz 'Katy, bar the door!'

When Lide married him--Well! she had to go and be
A hired girl in town somewheres--while he tromped round to see
What he could git that he could do,--you might say, jes sawed wood
From door to door!--that's what he done--'cause that wuz best he could!
And the strangest thing, i jing!
Wuz, he didn't drink a thing,--
But jes got down to bizness, like he someway wanted to,
When Lide married him, like they warned her not to do!

When Lide married him--er, ruther, had ben married
A little up'ards of a year--some feller come and carried
That hired girl away with him--a ruther stylish feller
In a bran-new green spring-wagon, with the wheels striped red and yeller:
And he whispered, as they driv
Tords the country, 'Now we'll live!'--
And somepin' else she laughed to hear, though both her eyes wuz dim,
'Bout 'trustin' Love and Heav'n above, sence Lide married him!'