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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIS FIRST AFFAIR, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: I told eliza mary ann
Last Line: Will go to war, and maybe die.
Subject(s): Children; Courtship; Romance; Childhood
First Line: I told eliza mary ann
Last Line: Will go to war, and maybe die.
Subject(s): Children; Courtship; Romance; Childhood
I told Eliza Mary Ann
We'd marry when I was a man.
I told her just how glad she'd be
To marry such a man as me.
But now we've quarrelled, guess that I
Will go to war, and maybe die.
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