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

Then, sneering, venomed darts pierced my lone, lone heart;

Then, mocking married fingers dragged me low,

But now I tune my liah to sweet extatic strains,

My teahs have all been shed, I am married now!

No gossip lean can wound me by her speech,

I, no humilitatin’ neveh more shall know;

Sorrow, stand off! I am beyond thy ghastly reach,

For Mrs. Betsey Slimpsey (formerly Bobbet) is married now!

Oh, mournful past, when I in Ingun file

Climbed single life’s, bleak, rocky, mounten’s brow,