Word: cotters
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...during the day we will roam hand in hand through the woods while I pour sweet poetry in her ear; then at even-time we will go to the meadow and bring the cattle home, and I will stand by my dear one in the barn-yard, repeating 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' while she milks the bosky cows. Then in the fall I will leave her, promising, as I press her to my bosom, to return in a week and marry her. Winter will come, but not I; the sweet maid will droop and fade, no longer singing about...