The Village Song

Halloo! Don Fulano! Let us have horses, and quickly.
Alas, poor Chispa! what a dog's life dost thou lead!
I thought, when I left my old master Victorian, the student, to serve my
new master Don Carlos, the gentleman, that I, too, should lead the

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American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Song of Hiawatha." One of the most popular American poets of the 19th century.

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