Frontier Song - Poetry of Henry Livingston, illustrated by antique postcards

Let statesmen tread their giddy round
Undoing and undone,

I hug my cell where still is found My puppy squaw and gun.

Let the gay Beau and tinsel'd Belle
In pleasure's circle run,

My happiness their joys excel
My puppy squaw & gun.

When forests nod, and lakes expand
And foaming cat'racts stun

I've fix'd my home: on either hand
My puppy squaw & gun.

Ambitions's path, the miser's road
The legal maze I shun;

But cling to my belov'd abode
My puppy squaw & gun.

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Song. Let statesmen tread their giddy round Undoing and undone, I hug my cell where still is found My puppy squaw and gun. Let the gay Beau and tinsel'd Belle In pleasure's circle run, My happiness their joys excel My puppy squaw & gun. When forests nod, and lakes expand And foaming cat'racts stun I've fix'd my home: on either hand My puppy squaw & gun. Ambitions's path, the miser's road The legal maze I shun; But cling to my belov'd abode My puppy squaw & gun.