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A lesson marked with death & wounds
Near to the City New Orleans
Deal death by wholesale to the brave
Returning crowned with evergreens
Enjoy what never can reach a slave
Worthy of praise in grateful strains
Jackson who leads this conquering band
And God be praised, he says amen
Confering grace with liberal hand
Know courteous reader, read & know
Such knowledge from these lines proceed
Of whom we speak the initials show
Now he that runs can fail to read.
T.B.

That one who steals my purse, steals trash
And should be punished with the last
But he who filches my good name
No profit to himself can claim
Makes me so poor indeed that he
Reforming pinishment must see.

Acrostic
The 1st of March in eighteen hundred & eight
He ventured on the matrimonial state:
Or still more explicit, he though late in life,