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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477784" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Possum Trot</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I 've journeyed 'roun' consid'able, a-seein' men an' things,<br>An' I 've learned a little of the sense that meetin' people brings;<br>But in spite of all my travelling an' of all I think I know,<br>I 've got one notion in my head, that I can't git to go;<br>An' it is that the folks I meet in any other spot<br>Ain't half so good as them I knowed back home in Possum Trot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know you 've never heerd the name, it ain't a famous place,<br>An' I reckon ef you 'd search the map you could n't find a trace<br>Of any sich locality as this I 've named to you;<br>But never mind, I know the place, an' I love it dearly too.<br>It don't make no pretensions to bein' great or fine,<br>The circuses don't come that way, they ain't no railroad line.<br>It ain't no great big city, where the schemers plan an' plot,<br>But jest a little settlement, this place called Possum Trot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But don't you think the folks that lived in that outlandish place<br>Were ignorant of all the things that go for sense or grace.<br>Why, there was Hannah Dyer, you may search this teemin' earth<br>An' never find a sweeter girl, er one o' greater worth;<br>An' Uncle Abner Williams, a-leanin' on his staff,<br>It seems like I kin hear him talk, an' hear his hearty laugh.<br>His heart was big an' cheery as a sunny acre lot,<br>Why, that's the kind o' folks we had down there at Possum Trot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good times? Well, now, to suit my taste,--an' I 'm some hard to suit,--<br>There ain't been no sich pleasure sence, an' won't be none to boot,<br>With huskin' bees in Harvest time, an' dances later on,<br>An' singin' school, an taffy pulls, an' fun from night till dawn.<br>Revivals come in winter time, baptizin's in the spring,<br>You 'd ought to seen those people shout, an' heerd 'em pray an' sing;<br>You 'd ought to 've heard ole Parson Brown a-throwin' gospel shot<br>Among the saints an' sinners in the days of Possum Trot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We live up in the city now, my wife was bound to come;<br>I hear aroun' me day by day the endless stir an' hum.<br>I reckon that it done me good, an' yet it done me harm,<br>That oil was found so plentiful down there on my ole farm.<br>We 've got a new-styled preacher, our church is new-styled too,<br>An' I 've come down from what I knowed to rent a cushioned pew.<br>But often when I 'm settin' there, it's foolish, like as not,<br>To think of them ol' benches in the church at Possum Trot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know that I 'm ungrateful, an' sich thoughts must be a sin,<br>But I find myself a wishin' that the times was back agin.<br>With the huskin's an' the frolics, an' the joys' I used to know,<br>When I lived at the settlement, a dozen years ago.<br>I don't feel this way often, I 'm scarcely ever glum,<br>For life has taught me how to take her chances as they come.<br>But now an' then my mind goes back to that ol' buryin' plot,<br>That holds the dust of some I loved, down there at Possum Trot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q>
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An' I 've learned a little of the sense that meetin' people brings;
But in spite of all my travelling an' of all I think I know,
I 've got one notion in my head, that I can't git to go;
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