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Show WHEN I MEAN TO MARRY. BY JOHN 0. SAXE. Whfn I mean to marry? Well 'Tis idle to disputo with fi'.e; But, if you choose to hear me tell, Pray liiten while 1 fix the date. When daughters haste with eager feet, A mother's daily toil to share; Can make the puddings which thoy eat, And mend the stockings which they wear. When maidens look upon a man As in himself whatthey would marry, And not as army soldiers scan A sutler or a commissary; When gontle ladies who have got The oflbr of a lover's hand, Consent to share nil "earthly lot," And do not mean his lot of land; When young mechanics are allowed To And and wed tho farmers' girls; Who don't ei'pcctto be endowed With rubies, diamonds and pearls; When wit-os, in short, shall freely give Thoir hearU and bands to aid their spouse s. And live aa they vere wont to live, Within their sires' ono-story houses; Then, mad am if I'm not too old Rejoiced to quit thi3 lonely life, I'll brush my beaver, cease to scold, And look about me for a wifo I |