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Title: Reminiscent rhymes, and other verse
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wilson, John Byers
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Publisher: Cincinnati, Press of Jennings and Graham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ause he will persist in bein A durned, infernal fool. SUCKTX THE SAP FEOM THE OLD SUGAR TREE Whex the sun begins a drawin the frost from out the ground,Long the last o February, my heart leaps with a bound;For its then I fall to musin on the springs o long ago,When buds began their swellin and the sap its upward flow:Thro the rough bark, slantin downward, I bored the augiir holes,Which filled with natures nectar, the drink o poets souls—Heres lookin at 3^e! xVll the boys, who with their straws, like me.Stood round the trunk an sucked the sap from the old sugar tree. In modern mixicology they ve drinks both new an strange.But the sugar-water method o drinkin doesnt change;Sure, there never was invention improved upon the straw.For the reason that the relish is doubled with the draw;Whether lemonade or julep, or punch or creme-de-mint.Or cocoa-puff or cobbler, of the gods it gives a hint;But never could ambrosia so delicious seem to meAs the sap I used to suck from the old sugar tree.
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The nearest that could come to it, accordin to m)^ tongne,Was suckin up the cider from out the barrels bung;Or likewise in the cellar drinkin mothers ginger beer,Who d oft declare the shortage seemed to her a little queer;Oh! ho! for the days o boyhood, an the springs o long ago.When buds began their swellin an the sap its upward flow;I ve sipped the ales o London and the nectars o Paree,But let me suck the sap again from the old sugar tree. 219 LXCLE BEN 221 UNCLE BEN SIZES UP SOME FOLKS AND THINGS Thar s some good folks at sume to know The whole o future fate;An een afore creations dawn, 0 then they will relate;Both the will o Natur an o God They ackrately make out;An all betwixt both eends o time. They prove ithout a doubt. Thars millions ithout knowin why. Drop in this way o thinkin.Unconscious o the blind conceit At which they re daily winkin;Jes made it up they know it all About divine intention.An o any honest doubt o same They cant bear any mention. An on this basis they direc

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