Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove,

Of what Abe Lincoln said

One time at Springfield.

OLLIE McGEE

Have you seen walking through the village

A man with downcast eyes and haggard face?

That is my husband who, by secret cruelty

Never to be told, robbed me of my youth and my beauty;

Till at last, wrinkled and with yellow teeth,

And with broken pride and shameful humility,