Quotes from The Biglow Papers — James Russell Lowell
1819–1891 United States
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:
Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.
Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,
An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
An' you've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.
Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.
It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
Ez to my princerples, I glory
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.
I don't believe in princerple,
But oh I du in interest.
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look
On sech a blessed cretur.
All kin' o' smily round the lips,
An' teary round the lashes.
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