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Brown lived at such a lofty farm	A
That everyone for miles could see	B
His lantern when he did his chores	C
In winter after half past three	B
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And many must have seen him make	D
His wild descent from there one night	E
'Cross lots 'cross walls 'cross everything	F
Describing rings of lantern light	E
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Between the house and barn the gale	G
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And blew him out on the icy crust	H
That cased the world and he was gone	I
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Walls were all buried trees were few	J
He saw no stay unless he stove	K
A hole in somewhere with his heel	L
But though repeatedly he strove	K
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And stamped and said things to himself	M
And sometimes something seemed to yield	N
He gained no foothold but pursued	O
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Sometimes he came with arms outspread	O
Like wings revolving in the scene	P
Upon his longer axis and	O
With no small dignity of mien	P
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Faster or slower as he chanced	O
Sitting or standing as he chose	Q
According as he feared to risk	R
His neck or thought to spare his clothes	S
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He never let the lantern drop	T
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The figures he described with it	O
I wonder what those signals are	U
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Brown makes at such an hour of night	O
He's celebrating something strange	V
I wonder if he's sold his farm	A
Or been made Master of the Grange	V
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He reeled he lurched he bobbed he checked	O
He fell and made the lantern rattle	W
But saved the light from going out	O
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Incredulous of his own bad luck	X
And then becoming reconciled	O
To everything he gave it up	Y
And came down like a coasting child	O
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Well I be that was all he said	O
As standing in the river road	O
He looked back up the slippery slope	Z
Two miles it was to his abode	O
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Sometimes as an authority	O
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Should say our stock was petered out	O
And this is my sincere reply	A2
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Yankees are what they always were	B2
Don't think Brown ever gave up hope	Z
Of getting home again because	C2
He couldn't climb that slippery slope	Z
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Or even thought of standing there	D2
Until the January thaw	E2
Should take the polish off the crust	O
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And then went round it on his feet	O
After the manner of our stock	F2
Not much concerned for those to whom	G2
At that particular time o'clock	F2
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It must have looked as if the course	H2
He steered was really straight away	I2
From that which he was headed for	J2
Not much concerned for them I say	I2
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No more so than became a man	K2
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I've kept Brown standing in the cold	O
While I invested him with reasons	L2
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But now he snapped his eyes three times	M2
Then shook his lantern saying Ile's	M2
'Bout out and took the long way home	N2
By road a matter of several miles	M2

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