Other types of graffiti, however, vary from the very earnest expression of affection to the nonexcrementally satiric. One of the more unusual is a poem in praise of a faithful and loving wife:
I kiss’d her standing,
Kiss’d her lying,
Kiss’d her in Health,
And kiss’d her dying;
And when she mounts the Skies,
I’ll kiss her flying.
(Pt. 3, p. 5)
Underneath this poem, The Merry-Thought records a favorable comment on the sentiment. Even more earnest is the complaint of a woman about her fate in love:
Since cruel Fate has robb’d me of the Youth,