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

Ah, yes! I’d ratheh be a ghost,

And sit upon a certain post.

Methinks he’d coveh up his head

And groan and rithe, and maybe swear,

And sithe, “I wish she wasn’t dead;”

But still I’ll keep a sittin’ theah.

As long as I remain a ghost,

I’ll hang around a certain post.

Anotheh certain person may,

With terror wish she hadn’t had