I WAS for Union -- you, ag'in' it. 'Pears like, to me, each side was winner, Lookin' at now and all 'at's in it. Le' 's go to dinner. Le' 's kind o' jes' set down together And do some pardnership forgittin' -- Talk, say, for instunce, 'bout the weather, Or somepin' fittin'. The war, you know, 's all done and ended, And ain't changed no p'ints o' the compass; Both North and South the health's jes' splendid As 'fore the rumpus. The old farms and the old plantations Still ockipies the'r old positions. Le' 's git back to old situations And old ambitions. Le' 's let up on this blame', infernal Tongue-lashin' and lap-jacket vauntin', And git back home to the eternal Ca'm we're a-wantin'. Peace kind o' sort o' suits my diet -- When women does my cookin' for me; Ther' wasn't overly much pie et Durin' the army. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SORROWING LOVE by KATHERINE MANSFIELD BONNYBELL: THE BUTTERFLY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW OLD KING COLE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 52 by PHILIP SIDNEY HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS: TROY by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS |