 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1926 - 584 str.
...a prize is cast, Red as her lips and taper as her waist, She walks the round, and culls one favored beau, Who leaps, the luscious tribute to bestow. Various the sport as are the wits and brains Of well pleased lasses and contending swains; Till the vast mound of corn is swept away, And he that gets... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 str.
...prize is cast, Red as her lips, and taper as her waist, She walks the round, and culls one favored beau, Who leaps, the luscious tribute to bestow. Various the sport as are the wits and brains 25 Of well-pleased lassies and contending swains; Till the vast mound of corn is swept away, 1 black,... | |
 | Nicholas P. Hardeman - 1999 - 296 str.
...the round and culls one favor'd beau. Who leaps the luscious tribute to bestow. Various the sports, as are the wits and brains Of well-pleased lasses...day. Meanwhile, the housewife urges all her care. The well-earn 'd feast to hasten and prepare. It happened on a Sunday afternoon at one of those grizzly,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 892 str.
...the round and culls one favor'd beau, Who leaps the luscious tribute to bestow. Various the sports, as are the wits and brains Of well-pleased lasses...day. Meanwhile, the housewife urges all her care, The well-earn'd feast to hasten and prepare. The sifted meal already waits her hand, The milk is strain'd,... | |
 | 1857 - 602 str.
...the round and culls one favored beau, Who leaps the luscious tribute to bestow. Various the sports, as are the wits and brains Of well-pleased lasses...away, And he that gets the last ear wins the day." Progress in taste and sentiment, however, is already obvious in our recreative arrangements. There... | |
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With each smut ear he smuts the luckless swains ; But when to some sweet maid a prize is cast, Red as her lips and taper as her waist, She walks the round and culls one favoured beau, Who leaps the luscious tribute to bestow. 
