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HIS FIRST AFFAIR by BURGES JOHNSON

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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