The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Volumes 1-2

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Blakeman & Mason, 1862 - American wit and humor - 373 pages
A compilation of the author's satirical articles commenting on the Civil War and contemporary society.

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Page 201 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven: As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 149 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow...
Page 325 - I do not argue; I beseech you to make the arguments for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times.
Page 329 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain again ; — it had a dying fall. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south. That breathes upon a bank of violets. Stealing, and giving odor.
Page 59 - Post, The sun swells grandly to his morning crown; Yet not a star our Flag of Heav'n has lost, And not a sunset stripe with him goes down. So thrones may fall, and from the dust of those New thrones may rise, to totter like the last ; But still our Country's nobler planet glows While the eternal stars of Heaven are fast.
Page 27 - Dog Hollow, in the Green Mount State, Was his first stopping-place ; And then Skunk's Misery displayed Its sweetness and its grace. By easy stages then he went To visit Devil's Den ; And Scrabble Hollow, by the way, Did come within his ken. Then via Nine Holes and Goose Green He travelled through the State ; And to Virginia, finally, Was guided by his fate.
Page 27 - Just started on a tour, And go to Nomjamskillicook To-morrow morn at four." He took a tavern-bed that night, And, with the morrow's sun, By way of Sekledobskus went, With carpet-bag and gun. A week passed on, and next we find Our native tourist come To that sequestered village called Genasagarnagum. From thence he went to Absequoit, And there — quite tired of Maine — He sought the mountains of Vermont, Upon a railroad train. Dog Hollow, in the Green Mount State, Was his first stopping-place...
Page 28 - Where half a day he spent. From thence, into Negationburg His route of travel lay; Which having gained, he left the State, And took a southward way. North Carolina's friendly soil He trod at fall of night, And, on a bed of softest down, He slept at Hell's Delight. Morn found him on the road again. To Lousy Level bound; At Bull's Tail, and Lick Lizard, too,.
Page 102 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Page 60 - One hue of our Flag is taken From the cheeks of my blushing Pet, And its stars beat time and sparkle Like the studs on her chemisette. Its blue is the ocean shadow That hides in her dreamy eyes, It conquers all men, like her, And still for a Union flies.

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