With “Haw, Buck!
Gee, Buck!
Sh’n’t get there till night!”
No; Eliphalet’s wedding journey was not one intense delight.
Now, when he drove his equipage up to his sweetheart’s door,
The wedding guests had tired and gone, just half-an-hour before;
The preacher had from sickness an unprofitable call,
And had sent a voice proclaiming that he couldn’t come at all;
The parents had been prejudiced by some one, more or less,
And the sire the bridegroom greeted with a different word from “bless.”