The Maple Dell of '76 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... You need not weep, turn pale, and swoon, You might as well implore the moon; For you I shall provide no more, I am Delilah's troubadour. Adelia, poor, demented thing, The Pennsylvania bells will ring. Go to a mad-house, quickly go, I am Delilah's favorite beau; With her I'll roam through classic halls While you are in asylum walls. In costly raiment she can fix, She is the belle of 76. "Divorce! divorce!" he loudly cried, Till mountain echoes all replied; The lofty hills, the rocks, and plains Responded to the lawyer's claims. Along the vale the echoes ring: Adelia, poor, demented thing! Give Adelia fits of mania, Ring the bells of Pennsylvania. A SUBPCENA IN DIVORCE. Attentive was the Court to hear, And wrote, Adelia must appear; She must be there on such a day, For no cause must she stay away. She must leave all her work and come, And matrimony's items sum, And tell about the maple-trees Before the Court of Common Pleas. She said she could not pay the fare To reach the sparkling Delaware; From Jersey's cabin to the shore Measured a dozen miles or more. And some leagues of the distance lay Straight through a dismal forest way, Where the lone mountain legends tell The fierce banditti often dwell. But virtue to her was so dear, Before the Court she would appear; She'd try her strength of nerve and bone To tread the wilderness alone. Too long her cruel truant lord Had careless handled gun and sword. She would prepare her evidence, And promptly make a just defence. "How did he treat you?" said the Court; "Adelia, give a true report. By us you shall be fairly lawed. Penn's jurors are not men of fraud; The virtues of immortal Penn Survive in Pennsylvania men." ADELIA'S STATEMENT. She clasped her babe close to her breast, And for the Court these deeds confessed...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151376167
- ISBN 13 9781151376169
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages24
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