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Charles Godfrey Leland, H. P. Leland

Ye Book of Copperheads

Published by Good Press, 2019

EAN 4064066170691

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YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS

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" Continue this united League."Richard the Third, III. 1.

|There once was a Copperhead snake tried to Bite Uncle Sam by mistake;

But the Seven League Boot on old Uncle Sam's foot

Soon crushed this pestiferous snake.

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A soldier came back from the war, with many an honorable scar;

But the Copperheads cried, "Served you right if you'd died

In this curst Abolitionist war!"

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T he old Tory dragon is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead;

Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke,

And out came a vile Copperhead.

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T here was once a young giant asleep, and round him two serpents did creep;

But he stopped their vile breath, and squeezed them to death,

This giant aroused from his sleep.

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T here once was a Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a file,

So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth

On that rusty and crusty Old File.

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"Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2.

T here was an old Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work;

"But if war must come, let us fight here at home!!"

Quoth sanguiloquent Ben of New York.

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"One of those who worship dirty gods."Cymbeline, III. 8.

T here once was a chap named Vallandigham, whom the Copperheads chose for commanding 'em;

But a trip to the South soon silenced his mouth,

And the world as a Tory is branding him.

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W ith War Democrats Seymour's for war; with Peace cowards for peace he'll hurrah;

Let him get in the way of the mower some day,

And He'll find there's no quibbling with war.

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T he Copperhead lotterie hath a curious policie;

For a man of low rank can draw naught save a blank,

Unless an accomplice he be.

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T here once was a twistified Reed who took for his pattern Snake-Weed;

Till the Copperheads all, great, middling, and small

Seemed straight by the side of this Reed.

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T here's a character very well known, Who bubbles for ages has blown;

But the best he has made since at bubbling he played,

From a Copperhead pipe have been thrown.

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"And what Stock he springs of!!"Coriolan, II. 3.

C opper stocks are uncertain to buy, though this Copperhead's stock's very high;

But we still might improve this stock of his love,

By adding the right sort of tie.

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T here was an old War Horse, a clerical, who thought our Republic chimerical;

"For the Union," he said, "he never had prayed,"

This mordacious old War Horse cholerical.

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" There is no goodness in the worm,"Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2.

T he abominable Copperhead worms! With their wriggles, and twists, and their squirms!

But the gardener, they say, will soon find out a way

To kill the vile Copperhead worms.

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"There are many complaints, Davy, about that."King Henry IV., V. 1.

T here was a Stern Statesman astute, who so often went in to recruit,

That a Rattlesnake fat revolved in his hat,

While a Copperhead squirmed in his boot.

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"So much dishonor my fair stars."King Richard 111., IV. 1.

T he traitor our Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars,

Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say,

When he cuts out her head from the stars.

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"And so the lion vanished."Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1.

W hile it did us great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition;

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