Ransom Mack Poem, 1865
wife lay this paper safely away
The doelful scenes of winter have passed away you know.
And april showers will bring may flowers the green grass it will grow
The busy bee the willow tree the lilly in the vale
Are tokens that the love of god to us will never fail
Its now the spring of sixty five the old year dead and gone
The blue bird robin red breast they soon will be along
To warble in our forests o how welcome they will be
As they sing to us their songs their songs of liberty
The Farmer now resumes his plow he furows oer his land
He gets an honest living by the labor of his hands
He plows he sowes he reaps he mows his heart is kind and free
God bless the noble farmer and his rising posterity
The looing herd the bleating flock they do long to get away
Out of the barn yards and the pens where theyv been kept to stay
To crop once more the green grass to wander to and fro know
For its their delight to lie down at knight with their belies full
The cackling hen betrays her nest as from it she doth go
The little frogs say knee deep to us all through the swamps you know
The gobler goose and gander by way they are a treat
Well cooked on the table for you and me to eat
Oh its husband take the baby the wife she doth reply
For its I am in a hury and it wont do to let him cry
Wife most willingly I would do it but I am afraid you see
That the baby would onlimber and shit all over me
Now the cow is in the mire the hay is in the grass
And a man without a woman is no beter than an ass
Old Lee he has surrendered grant got him by the neck
And choked him till he was black and blue say he shit a peck /
Its now four years and past since this cruel war began
And the southern land has drank the blood of many a valient one
But the fight has been the poor mans but it has enriched a mass
Of lawyers sutlers and doctors which the devil will get at last
DATABASE CONTENT
| (6948) | DL0987.014 | 74 | Letters | 1865 |
Tags: Animals, Children, Defeat/Surrender, Farming, Gender Relations, Nature, Religion, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Unionism
People - Records: 2
SOURCES
Ransom Mack Poem, 1865, DL0987.014, Nau Collection
