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

A Him of Victory.

BY MRS. BETSEY SLIMPSEY knee BOBBET.

Fate, I defy thee! I have vanquished thee, old maid.

Dost ask why thus, this proud triumphant brow?

I answer thee, old Fate, with loud and joyful burst

Of blissful laughteh, I am married now!

Once grief did rave about my lonely head;

Once I did droop, as droops a drooping willow bough;

Once I did tune my liah to doleful strains;

’Tis past! ’tis past my soul! I am married now!