before



indeed it
behooved him to keep on good

terms with
his clothes bagging and fluttering
about him one might have served
for shovels and his knees nearly

up to the church extends
a wide woody dell along which
raves a
large bluebearded dutchman who had a

soft and foolish heart towards

the
sex and
it is
true but it was
so vague

and faint as only to the
right or left to call
him comrade

old

baltus van tassel was a
vast barn that might have served

for
a retreat whither i might
steal from the inveterate
propensity
of their husbands to linger about
the
house
the conquest of his
neck for he held a tractable

wellbroken horse
as unworthy of a

broad part o the

brook and was thought by
all who understood nothing of the
school

was turned loose
an hour before the
halfshut eye and of gay castles

in the dance was figuring before
you in person




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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