My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's / Designed as a Beacon Light to Guide Women to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, But Which May Be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the Book

by Marietta Holley

I saw thee coming down the street,

She by your side in bonnet bloo;

The stuns that grated ’neath thy feet

Seemed crunching on my vitals too.

Oh Josiah,

It seemed as if I must expiah.

I saw thee washing sheep last night,

On the bridge I stood with marble brow,

The waters raged, thou clasped it tight,

I sighed, ‘should both be drownded now—’