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AARON BURR'S WOOING British gallants by day through her doors come and go,

But a Yankee's the winner of Theo Prevost.

Where's the widow or maid with a mouth to be kist,

When Burr comes a-wooing, that long would resist?

Lights and wine on the beaufet, the shutters all fast,

And "Old Put" stamps in vain till an hour has flown past—

But an hour, for eight leagues must be covered ere day;

Laughs Aaron, "Let Washington frown as he may,

When he hears of me next, in a raid on the foe,

He'll forgive this night's tryst with the Widow Prevost!"

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