The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Chapter 21 Page 11

Two stanzas of it will do:

“A MISSOURI MAIDEN’S FAREWELL TO ALABAMA

“Alabama, goodbye! I love thee well!

But yet for a while do I leave thee now!

Sad, yes, sad thoughts of thee my heart doth swell,

And burning recollections throng my brow!

For I have wandered through thy flowery woods;

Have roamed and read near Tallapoosa’s stream;

Have listened to Tallassee’s warring floods,

And wooed on Coosa’s side Aurora’s beam.

“Yet shame I not to bear an o’erfull heart,