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 would not be a seraphim,

For far a sweeter sight would be

On bedpost sitting, twitting him,

Of his deceit and perfide;

I’d rathah be a dreadful ghost,

A sitting on a certain post.

I can give up my heavenly claim,

My seat upon the heavenly quiah;

I feel anotheh, wildeh aim—

To be a ghost is my desiah.