Nature Sonnets (By the Village Poet)

I went to church one night not long ago

     An’ Susie Miller went to church as well;

     Just what the preacher said I couldn’t tell

Becuz my mind was on Miss Susie so,

An’ seemed to me he never would let go.

     Miss Susie she’s near old enough to be

     My ma but I’m as stuck as I kin be,

An’ thought that night I’d like to be her beau.

I ast her could I see her home, an’ shook

     For fear that she would laugh and turn me down,

An’ if she did I knew that I would look

     The most dejected chump in all the town.

“Good land!” she snapped, “I guess I’d better see

You home instid of your seein’ me!”

Dec. 3, 1912