English poem
THOUGHTS THOUGHT ABOUT MA'S NOTIONS REGARDIN’ LOVE AND HOUSE-KEEPIN’
by Nixon Waterman (1859–1944)
When sister Maymie saidst she'd like to learn To sweep the keys of a piano-forte, Ma she spoke up and cut her right off short And saidst she'd rather that a girl of her 'n Shouldst know just how to sweep a room, nor spurn A poor but honest man, for that's the sort Pa wast. And ma insists no woman ort To spend more money than a man canst earn.
A kid-gloved dandy with a stove-pipe hat Wed ma's proud cousin. Say, but he wast sly! "Our home shalt be next thing to Heaven!" That Wast what he vowed. Ma says that that's no lie For they art packed into a stingy flat Four stairways up, and plumb against the sky!
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