Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
A Ditty
By Gilbert Peter Knapp (b. 1855)[Born in New York, N. Y., 1855.]
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Strive as we will, we may not all discover;
True to herself, sweet-fashioned as a rose,
Jenny doth live, and yet she hath no lover!
Grieve not though fame with brightest wing doth hover
O’er spirits portionless! Fair as her birth,
Jenny doth live, and yet she hath no lover.