"_ Continue this united League."--Richard the Third, III. 1_.
`|There once was a Copperhead snake tried to Bite Uncle Sam by mistake;
```But the Seven League Boot on old Uncle Sam's foot
````Soon crushed this pestiferous snake.
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|A soldier came back from the war, with many an honorable scar;
```But the Copperheads cried, "Served you right if you'd died
````In this curst _Abolitionist_ war!"
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|The old Tory dragon is dead, but she left us some eggs in her stead;
``Two were smashed in the yolk, but the third hatched and broke,
```And out came a vile Copperhead.
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|There was once a young giant asleep, and round him two serpents did creep;
```But he stopped their vile breath, and squeezed them to death,
````This giant aroused from his sleep.
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|There once was a Copperhead vile, who attempted to damage a
```So he tried it in truth, but soon broke every tooth
````On that rusty and crusty Old File.
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"_Nor doth this Wood lack Worlds."--Midsummer Night's Dream, II. 2._
|There was an old Snake in New York said for peace all the people should work;
``"But if war _must_ come, let us fight here _at home!!_"
```Quoth sanguiloquent Ben of New York.
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_"One of those who worship dirty gods."--Cymbeline, III. 8._
|There once was a chap named Vallandigham, whom the Copperheads chose for commanding 'em;
```But a trip to the South soon silenced his mouth,
````And the world as a _Tory_ is branding him.
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|With War Democrats Seymour's for war; with Peace cowards for peace he'll hurrah;
```Let him get in the way of the mower some day,
````And He'll find there's no quibbling with war.
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|The Copperhead lotterie hath a curious policie;
``For a man of low rank can draw naught save a blank,
````Unless an accomplice he be.
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|There once was a twistified Reed who took for his pattern Snake-Weed;
```Till the Copperheads all, great, middling, and small
````Seemed _straight_ by the side of this Reed.
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|There's a character very well known, Who bubbles for ages has blown;
```But the best he has made since at _bubbling_ he played,
````From a Copperhead pipe have been thrown.
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````_"And what Stock he springs of!!"--Coriolan, II. 3._
|Copper stocks are uncertain to buy, though this Copperhead's stock's very high;
```But we still might improve this stock of his love,
````By adding the _right_ sort of tie.
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|There was an old War Horse, a clerical, who thought our Republic chimerical;
```"For the Union," he said, "he never had prayed,"
````This mordacious old War Horse cholerical.
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```_" There is no goodness in the worm,"--Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2._
|The abominable Copperhead worms! With their wriggles, and twists, and their squirms!
```But the gardener, they say, will soon find out a way
````To kill the vile Copperhead worms.
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```_"There are many complaints, Davy, about that."--King Henry IV., V. 1._
|There was a Stern Statesman astute, who so often went in to _recruit_,
```That a Rattlesnake fat revolved in his hat,
````While a Copperhead squirmed in his boot.
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```_"So much dishonor my fair stars."--King Richard 111., IV. 1._
|The traitor our Common Cents mars, And on Liberty plainly he wars,
```Taking Freedom away from the Union, I say,
````When he cuts out her head from the stars.
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_"And so the lion vanished."--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._
|While it did us great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition;
```Now with Copperhead _tale_ he stings himself pale.
````And furaciously scorns Abolition.
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```_"Will this Wood take fire?"--Merry Wives of Windsor, V. 5._
|Union, a fagot we take; But 'twould be a tremendous mistake,
```To use rotten old Wood which never was good,
````And then bind it up with a Snake.
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|There once was a Patriot whose rigor reached such a remarkable figure,
```That he'd rather go down in the water and drown
````Than be saved by the help of a nigger.
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|There once were some rascals near Reading thought fighting was easy as wedding;
```But being well kicked, and most terribly licked,
````They mournfully mizzled from Reading.
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_"O wicked Wall!"--Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 1._
|There once was an old _party_-Wall, quite _cracked_ and just ready to fall;
```The Copperheads came and completed its shame
````By sticking their Bills on this Wall.
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|There once was a bottle of Porter, which the Copperheads thought was all water;
```But when the cork popped, the Copperheads dropped,
````And were stunned by the _vim_ of the Porter!
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|There once was a Snake who said "Hey! There's an Eagle I'll take for my prey!"
```But the bird with his bill did the Copperhead kill,
````And bore him in triumph away.
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```_"Exit shall be strangling a snake."--Love's Labor's Lost, V. 1._
|The Copperhead traitors all, our army "base hirelings" call
```But some fine summer day The "boys," just for play,
````Will settle the Copperheads all.
Amen!