Ballad of women i love


Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate
Hid away in an oaken chest,
And a Franklin platter of ancient date
Beareth Amandy Baker’s crest;
What times soever I’ve been their guest,
Says I to myself in an undertone:
“Of womenfolk, it must be confessed,
These do I love, and these alone.”

Well, again, in the Nutmeg State,
Dorothy Pratt is richly blest
With a relic of art and a land effete
A pitcher of glass that’s cut, not pressed.
And a Washington teapot is possessed
Down in Pelham by Marthy Stone
Think ye now that I say in jest
“These do I love, and these alone?”

Were Hepsy Higgins inclined to mate,
Or Dorcas Eastman prone to invest
In Cupid’s bonds, they could find their fate
In the bootless bard of Crockery Quest.
For they’ve heaps of trumpery so have the rest
Of those spinsters whose ware I’d like to own;
You can see why I say with such certain zest,
“These do I love, and these alone.”


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Ballad of women i love