For her my heart is breaking.

But if ever I do go that way,

And she has not resign’d me,

I’ll reconcile my mind and stay

With the girl I left behind me.

’Tilda Horn.

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I was raised in Mississippi, where the sugar-cane grows tall,

And I loved a pretty yellow girl, much sweeter than them all.