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"To Jessica, Gone Back to the City" from Century Magazine

by Ellis Parker Butler
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    1897

  • Century Magazine (November, 1897)   "To Jessica, Gone Back to the City"   A poem. p 160.  [MOA]

from Century Magazine
To Jessica, Gone Back to the City
by Ellis Parker Butler

Sence fair Jessica hez left us
Seems ez ef she hed bereft us,
When she went, o' half o' livin';
Fer we never knowed she'd driven
Into us so much content,
Till fair Jessica hed went.
    (Knowed a feller once thet cried
    When his yaller dog hed died.)

We hain't near ez bright an' chirky,
An' the sun shines blue an' murky,
Kind o' sadly an' dishearted,
Like ets sperret bed departed;
Just ez ef ets joy bed ceased
Sence fair Jessica 's gone East.
    (Not but what ets always sober
    Sort o' weather in October.)

Then the posies, too, seems human,
An' hez all quit o' their bloomin';
An' the trees they show a pallor
An' hey turned a heart-sick yaller,
Sayin', "No use livin' on
Ef fair Jessica hez gone."
    (Folks thet knows sez this ez all
    Very common in the fall.)

Truth ez, I'm a-feelin' sadly;
Things ez goin' kind o' badly
Round my heart an' other vitals
(Brings on poetry recitals
O' my woes 'most ev'ry day)
Sence fair Jessica's away.
    (Kind o' think thet I will haf ter
    Smoke a leetle less hereafter.)

But, with fun aside, you know,
We're blamed sorry she must go;
An' we hope she'll think, maybe,
'Z well o' us ez we o' she.


To Jessica

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