FAMILY HISTORY: POETRY Collection written by Elsie Strawn ARMSTRONG
  
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  The Spirit of my dreams has taken a change.
  
  That crazy old fanatic,
      Called Henry Ward Beecher,
  And many more such demagogues
      That fain would be our teacher,
  They should be placed before,
      In the hottest of the battle,
  Where they could hear the cannon roar
      And hear the artillery rattle.
  
  The let them call on Negroes
      To help them out of danger,
  And not the unoffending
      And innocent white stranger.
  
  
  Excuse a little slang from an old woman who has lived out three score and 
  ten.
  
  Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis
      And many more such wretches,
  I fear will soon be lost
      In old Satan's clutches.
  If they don't soon repent
      And stop this wicked murder,
  They can't expect forgiveness
      Now, --nor yet hereafter.
  
  Seventy-one, and of course in my dotage!