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18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life is but an empty dream!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gimme liberty or death! In fourteen ninety-two. An' Barbara Frietchie, so 'tis said, Cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shoot if you must this old, gray head, But I'd rather 'twould be your own instead!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you goin' to do? An' they said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We seek your harbor drear That our children's children's children dear May boast that their forefathers landed here In fourteen ninety-two."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who stuffed that white owl?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you see, Mister Brown, Cried the youth, with a frown,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How wrong the whole thing is, How preposterous each wing is. How flattened the head is, how jammed down the neck is-- In short, the whole owl, what an ignorant wreck 'tis! I make no apology; I've learned owleology. I've passed days and nights in a hundred collections, And cannot be blinded to any deflections Arising from unskilful fingers that fail To stuff a bird right, from his beak to his tail. Mister Brown! Mister Brown! Do take that bird down, Or you'll soon be the laughing-stock all over town!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've _studied_ owls, And other night fowls, And I tell you What I know to be true: An owl cannot roost With his limbs so unloosed; No owl in this world Ever had his claws curled, Ever had his legs slanted, Ever had his bill canted, Ever had his neck screwed Into that attitude. He can't _do_ it, because 'Tis against all bird laws. Anatomy teaches, Ornithology preaches, An owl has a toe That _can't_ turn out so! I've made the white owl my study for years, And to see such a job almost moves me to tears! Mister Brown, I'm amazed You should be so gone crazed As to put up a bird In that posture absurd! To _look_ at that owl really brings on a dizziness; The man who stuffed him don't half know his business!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Examine those eyes. I'm filled with surprise Taxidermists should pass Off on you such poor glass; So unnatural they seem They'd make Audubon scream, And John Burroughs laugh To encounter such chaff. Do take that bird down; Have him stuffed again, Brown!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With some sawdust and bark I could stuff in the dark An owl better than that. I could make an old hat Look more like an owl Than that horrid fowl, Stuck up here so stiff like a side of coarse leather. In fact, about _him _there's not one natural feather. Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl, very gravely, got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic, And then fairly hooted, as if he should say:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your learning's at fault this time, anyway; Don't waste it again on a live bird, I pray. I'm an owl; you're another. Sir Critic, good-day!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These were mine!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so here I am, at your service; But if you don't want me to stay, Why, all you need do is to say so, And should'ring my axe, I'll away. I dropped in a chair and near fainted, Just at thought of his leaving me then, And his eye gave a knowing bright twinkle As he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess I'll remain."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halt! --the dust-brown ranks stood fast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog; march on!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friend, I want to go to Morrow and return Not later than to-morrow, for I haven't time to burn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now let me see if I have heard you right, You want to go to Morrow and come back to-morrow night. You should have gone to Morrow yesterday and back to-day, For if you started yesterday to Morrow, don't you see, You could have got to Morrow and returned to-day at three. The train that started yesterday--now understand me right-- To-day it gets to Morrow, and returns to-morrow night."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My boy, it seems to me you're talking through your hat, Is there a town named Morrow on your line? Now tell me that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to go to Morrow; can I go to-day And get to Morrow by to-night, if there is no delay?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, well, said he,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now if you start to-day to Morrow, it's a cinch you'll land To-morrow into Morrow, not to-day, you understand. For the train to-day to Morrow, if the schedule is right, Will get you into Morrow by about to-morrow night. Said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess you know it all, but kindly let me say, How can I go to Morrow, if I leave the town to-day? Said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cannot go to Morrow any more to-day, For the train that goes to Morrow is a mile upon its way."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little white snowdrop! I pray you arise; Bright yellow crocus! please open your eyes; Sweet little violets, hid from the cold, Put on your mantles of purple and gold; Daffodils! Daffodils! say, do you hear?-- Summer is coming, and springtime is here!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, God; thy will be done! Then suddenly a rifle grasped, And aimed it at his son."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jump, far out, boy, into the wave! Jump, or I fire, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That only chance your life can save; Jump, jump, boy!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The snow is deep, the Justice said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's mighty mischief overhead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "High talk, indeed! his wife exclaimed;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, sir! shall Providence be blamed? The Justice, laughing, said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no! I only meant the loads of snow Upon the roofs. The barn is weak; I greatly fear the roof will break. So hand me up the spade, my dear, I'll mount the barn, the roof to clear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! said the wife;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for the roof-- All snugly tied, and danger-proof! Excelsior! Excel--But no! The rope is not secured below! Said Rachel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Climb, the end to throw Across the top, and I will go And tie that end around my waist."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, every woman to her taste; You always would be tightly laced. Rachel, when you became my bride, I thought the knot securely tied; But lest the bond should break in twain, I'll have it fastened once again. Below the arm-pits tied around, She takes her station on the ground, While on the roof, beyond the ridge, He shovels clear the lower edge. But, sad mischance! the loosened snow Comes sliding down, to plunge below. And as he tumbles with the slide, Up Rachel goes on t'other side. Just half-way down the Justice hung; Just half-way up the woman swung."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good land o' Goshen! shouted she;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, do you see it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take it coolly, wife; All have their ups and downs in life. Quoth Rachel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a pity 'tis To joke at such a thing as this! A man whose wife is being hung Should know enough to hold his tongue."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, Rachel, as I look below, I see a tempting heap of snow. Suppose, my dear, I take my knife, And cut the rope to save my life? She shouted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't! 'twould be my death-- I see some pointed stones beneath. A better way would be to call, With all our might, for Phebe Hall."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Agreed! he roared. First he, then she Gave tongue;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Phebe! Phebe! _Phe-e-be_ Hall!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If now a kitchen chair were brought, And I could reach the lady's foot, I'd draw her downward by the boot, Then cut the rope, and let him go; He cannot miss the pile of snow. He sees her moving toward his wife. Armed with a chair and carving-knife, And, ere he is aware, perceives His head ascending to the eaves; And, guessing what the two are at, Screams from beneath the roof,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop that! You make me fall too far, by half! But Phebe answers, with a laugh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please tell a body by what right You've brought your wife to such a plight!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou canst not let them perish; Up, Lord, in Thy strength, and save From the scorching breath Of this terrible death On this cruel winter wave. Take Thou my babe and watch it, No care is like to Thine; And let Thy power In this perilous hour Supply what lack is mine."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twas the Christ who watched it, And brought it safely through"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farewell, Had never been soiled by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rum Fiend had written"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tap-room"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God helping,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You bet. I'll catch that Fudge and his money yet. He's rich enough to keep me in clothes, And I think I could manage him as I chose. He could aid my father as well as not, And buy my brother a splendid yacht. My mother for money should never fret, And all it cried for the baby should get; And after that, with what he could spare, I'd make a show at a charity fair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A girl more suited to my mind It isn't an easy thing to find; And every thing that she has to wear Proves her as rich as she is fair. Would she were mine, and I to-day Had the old man's cash my debts to pay! No creditors with a long account, No tradesmen wanting 'that little amount'; But all my scores paid up when due By a father-in-law as rich as a Jew!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to see her catch me again, If I were free, as on that night When I saw Kate Ketchem dressed in white!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might have known!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come you back, you British soldier: come you back to Mandalay!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you've 'eard the East a-callin', why, you won't 'eed nothin' else."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Adm'r'l, speak; what shall I say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, say: 'Sail on! sail on! and on!'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan and weak. The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What shall I say, brave Adm'r'l, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, you shall say at break of day: 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave Adm'r'l, speak and say-- He said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sail on! Sail on! and on!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On! sail on!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sister's Best Feller"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; He calls her"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--I heard him--and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well done!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and some doughnuts, and some chicken, and some ham. Ma, she'll 'polergize like fury and say everything is bad, And"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sich awful luck with cookin', she is sure she never had; But, er course, she's only bluffin,' for it's as prime as it can be, And she's only talkin' that way 'cause the minister's ter tea. Everybody'll be a-smilin' and as good as ever was, Pa won't growl about the vittles, like he generally does. And he'll ask me would I like another piece er pie; but, sho! That, er course, is only manners, and I'm s'posed ter answer"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can but die once, boys, but SELL YOUR LIVES DEAR!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Pompey, while old Massa's waiting For Death's last dispatch to come, If that exiled starry banner Should come proudly sailing home, You shall greet it, slave no longer-- Voice and hand shall both be free That shout and point to Union colors On the waves of Tennessee."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Massa! Massa! Hallelujah! The flag's come back to Tennessee!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pompey, hold me on your shoulder, Help me stand on foot once more, That I may salute the colors As they pass my cabin door. Here's the paper signed that frees you, Give a freeman's shout with me-- 'God and Union!' be our watchword Evermore in Tennessee!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love to watch her as she feeds, And think that all is well While such a gentle creature haunts The place in which we dwell."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First in peace and first in war,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father, who makes it snow?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The snow that husheth all, Darling, the merciful Father Alone can make it fall!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If only Casey could get a whack at that,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to the wonderment of all, And the much-despised Blakey"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That ain't my style, said Casey."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strike one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kill him! Kill the umpire!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strike two."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fraud, cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fraud!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Casey at the Bat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just think, said one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They called him"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strike-out Casey"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Play ball! the umpire's voice rang out, and then the game began; But in that throng of thousands there was not a single fan Who thought that Mudville had a chance; and with the setting sun Their hopes sank low--the rival team was leading"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and the fifth"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strike him out!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strike one! the umpire said. Zip! Like a shot, the second curve broke just below his knee--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strike two!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rock Me to Sleep"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Backward? Nay, onward, ye swift rolling years! Gird on thy armor, keep back thy tears; Count not thy trials nor efforts in vain, They'll bring thee the light of thy childhood again. Thou shouldst not weary, my child, by the way, But watch for the light of that brighter day; Not tired of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sowing for others to reap,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mansions above."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never hereafter to suffer or weep,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That battery must silenced be!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God blessed him"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up, charge again! no man was there But hung his dogged head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've no one left to lead us now,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can the Twenty-second charge If I am not in front?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Awake, arise!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! thought he,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has some saint gone up to heaven?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, they answered, weeping sore;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the Organ-builder's saintly wife our eyes shall see no more; And because her days were given to the service of God's poor, From His church we mean to bury her. See! yonder is the door."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You saw them in the church--you say, It's likely, for they're always there. Not Sunday? No? A funeral? Who? Who, Harry? how you shake and stare! All well, you say, and all were out. What ails you, Hal? Is this a hoax? Why don't you tell me like a man: What is the matter with our folks?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, this long curl was kept for you; And this white blossom from her breast; And here--your sister Bessie wrote A letter telling all the rest. Bear up, old friend. Nobody speaks; Only the old camp-raven croaks, And soldiers whisper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boys, be still; There's some bad news from Granger's folks."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I s'pose she must be happy now, But still I will keep thinking, too, I could have kept all trouble off, By being tender, kind and true. But maybe not. She's safe up there, And when the Hand deals other strokes, She'll stand by Heaven's gate, I know, And wait to welcome in our folks."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did it come from? someone said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The wind has blown it in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does it want? another cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some whisky, rum or gin?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Toby, seek him, if your stomach's equal to the work-- I wouldn't touch him with a fork, he's as filthy as a Turk."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, boys, if you give me just another whisky, I'll be glad, And I'll draw right here a picture of the face that drove me mad. Give me that piece of chalk with which you mark the baseball score-- You shall see the lovely Madeline upon the bar-room floor."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madam, please give us a bit to eat; We will pay you well, and, if may be, This bright-eyed girl for pouring our tea; Then we must dash ten miles ahead, To catch a rebel colonel abed. He is visiting home, as doth appear; We will make his pleasure cost him dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The time may be, Your skill and courage may stand by me."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halt! or your blood be on your head"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On, on, brave beast!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halt! once more came the voice of dread;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Halt! or your blood be on your head!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One more trial now!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick! be quick, I say! They come! they come! Away! away!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good sirs, your bird has flown. 'Tis I who have scared him from his nest; So deal with me now as you think best. But the grand young captain bowed, and said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never you hold a moment's dread. Of womankind I must crown you queen; So brave a girl I have never seen. Wear this gold ring as your valor's due; And when peace comes I will come for you. But Jennie's face an arch smile wore, As she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a lad in Putnam's corps, Who told me the same, long time ago; You two would never agree, I know. I promised my love to be as true as steel,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; How"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; That"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The prodigal turns, so tired by want and sin, He seeks his father's open door--he weeps--and enters in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will it fade? the whisper trembled from a thousand whitening lips; Far out on the lurid harbor they watched it from the ships. A baleful gleam, that brighter and ever brighter shone, Like a flickering, trembling will-o'-the-wisp to a steady beacon grown."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Uncounted gold shall be given to the man whose brave right hand, For the love of the periled city, plucks down yon burning brand!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye may keep your gold, I scorn it! but answer me, ye who can, If the deed I have done before you be not the deed of a _man?_"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw the blue Rhine sweep along--I heard, or seemed to hear. The German songs we used to sing, in chorus sweet and clear; And down the pleasant river, and up the slanting hill, The echoing chorus sounded, through the evening calm and still; And her glad blue eyes were on me as we passed with friendly talk Down many a path beloved of yore, and well-remembered walk, And her little hand lay lightly, confidingly in mine: But we'll meet no more at Bingen--loved Bingen on the Rhine!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys, said one,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the laugh that rings so gayly through the richly curtained room, Join they all, save one; Why is it? Does he see the waxen bloom Tremble in its vase of silver? Does he see the ruddy wine Shiver in its crystal goblet, or do those grave eyes divine Something sadder yet? He pauses till their mirth has died away, Then in measured tones speaks gravely:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys, a story, if I may, I will tell you, though it may not merit worthily your praise, It is bitter fruitage ripened from our pranks of college days,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now stop, dear papa, for I know you can stop _now_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have scorned the pledge to sign, Laughed at temperance all my life long. Never more shall drop of wine Touch my lips. The fruit _was_ bitter, boys; 'twas I proposed it first-- That foul joke from which poor Horace ever bore a life accurst! Let us pledge ourselves to-night, boys, never more by word, or deed, In our own fair homes, or elsewhere, help to plant the poison seed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amen."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I' faith, 'tis an excellent bonfire! quoth he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the country is greatly obliged to me For ridding it, in these times forlorn, Of rats that only consume the corn."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lord, I open'd your granaries this morn, And the rats had eaten all your corn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fly, my lord bishop, fly! quoth he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten thousand rats are coming this way, The Lord forgive you for yesterday!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll go to my tower on the Rhine, replied he;"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's parted in the middle! Oh, the half of her goes down!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God have mercy! Is his heaven far to seek for those who drown?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could we send him a short message? Here's a trumpet. Shout away!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look to Jesus! Can you hear? And"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aye, aye, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is singing, 'Jesus, lover of my soul.' And the winds brought back the echo,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While the nearer waters roll. Strange, indeed, it was to hear him,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Till the storm of life is past, Singing bravely o'er the waters,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, receive my soul at last!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hangs my helpless soul on thee."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leave, ah! leave me not --the singer dropped at last into the sea. And the watchers, looking homeward, through their eyes by tears made dim, Said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He passed to be with Jesus in the singing of that hymn."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put a fence around the edge of the cliff, Some,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An ambulance down in the valley."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the cliff is all right, if you're careful, they said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And, if folks even slip and are dropping, It isn't the slipping that hurts them so much, As the shock down below when they're stopping."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a marvel to me That people give far more attention To repairing results than to stopping the cause, When they'd much better aim at prevention. Let us stop at its source all this mischief, cried he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, neighbors and friends, let us rally, If the cliff we will fence, we might almost dispense With the ambulance down in the valley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he's a fanatic, the others rejoined,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dispense with the ambulance? Never. He'd dispense with all charities, too, if he could; No! No! We'll support them forever. Aren't we picking up folks just as fast as they fall? And shall this man dictate to us? Shall he? Why should people of sense stop to put up a fence, While the ambulance works in the valley?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that? the startled master cries;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That, thir, a little imp replies,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wath William Willith, if you pleathe, I thaw him kith Thuthanna Peathe! With frown to make a statue thrill, The master thundered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hither, Will! Like wretch o'ertaken in his track With stolen chattels on his back, Will hung his head in fear and shame, And to the awful presence came,-- A great, green, bashful simpleton, The butt of all good-natured fun, With smile suppressed, and birch upraised The threatener faltered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm amazed That you, my biggest pupil, should Be guilty of an act so rude-- Before the whole set school to boot-- What evil genius put you to 't?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "sobbed the lad;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I did not mean to be so bad; But when Susanna shook her curls, And whispered I was 'fraid of girls, And dursn't kiss a baby's doll, I couldn't stand it, sir, at all, But up and kissed her on the spot! I know--boo-hoo--I ought to not, But, somehow, from her looks--boo-hoo-- I thought she kind o' wished me to!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is very good."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good night!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excuse me,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beg your pardon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive me"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be ye kind."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Mary weeps For the dead to-day: Haply her blind grandsire sleeps The fret and pain of his age away."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stay at home, pretty bees, fly not hence! Mistress Mary is dead and gone!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not Understood"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll help you across, if you wish to go."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She's somebody's mother, boys, you know, For all she's aged, and poor, and slow; And some one, some time, may lend a hand To help my mother--you understand?-- If ever she's poor, and old, and gray, And her own dear boy is far away."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody's mother bowed low her head, In her home that 'night, and the prayer she said Was:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God, be kind to that noble boy, Who is somebody's son, and pride and joy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Somebody's Mother's"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's very rude of him, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To come and spoil the fun!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If this were only cleared away, They said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose, the Walrus said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That they could get it clear?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I doubt it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Oysters, come and walk with us! The Walrus did beseech."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The time has come, the Walrus said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But wait a bit, the Oysters cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Before we have our chat; For some of us are out of breath, And all of us are fat!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No hurry!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now, if you're ready, Oysters dear, We can begin to feed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was so kind of you to come! And you are very nice! The Carpenter said nothing but"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cut us another slice. I wish you were not quite so deaf-- I've had to ask you twice!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It seems a shame, the Walrus said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To play them such a trick. After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick! The Carpenter said nothing but"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The butter's spread too thick!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I weep for you, the Walrus said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I deeply sympathize."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Oysters, said the Carpenter,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I squander on a barren field My strength, my life, my all: The seeds I sow will never grow,-- They perish where they fall."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And for his name, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I whipped that boy to-day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My idlest lad! the teacher said, Filled with a new surprise;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall I behold his name enrolled Among the great and wise?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And when she to her children speaks Of duty's golden rule, Her lips repeat in accents sweet, My words to her at school."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A dream!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After many days."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The night is growing darker,--ere one more day is flown, Bregenz, our foeman's stronghold, Bregenz shall be our own!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go forth, save Bregenz, and then, if need be, die!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faster! she cries."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, faster! Eleven the church-bells chime;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O God, she cries,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What _will_ become of you, my child, the Lord Almighty knows. You will not scrub the kettles, and you will not touch the broom; You never sit a minute still at spinning-wheel or loom."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I shall marry, mother dear,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Brier-Rose, she laughed and she trilled a merry lay:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps he'll come, my mother dear, from eight leagues away."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and a sigh forsook the battle, And flung her pots and pails about with much vindictive rattle;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Lord, what sin did I commit in youthful days, and wild, That thou hast punished me in age with such a wayward child?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Heaven only knows Whatever will become of you, my naughty Brier-Rose!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Heaven only knows Whatever will become of the naughty Brier-Rose!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cannot knit a stocking, and you cannot make a pie. But Brier-Rose, as was her wont, she cocked her curly head:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I can sing a pretty song,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ho, good-for-nothing Brier-Rose, how do you do to-day? Then she shook her tiny fist; to her cheeks the color flew:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "However much you coax me, I'll _never_ dance with you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord Almighty knows Whatever will become of that naughty Brier-Rose!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, lads, the sheriff shouted,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two hundred crowns! the sheriff cried, and breathless stood the crowd."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two hundred crowns, my bonny lads!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fling her into the river, we heard the matrons shout;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chase her away, the silly thing; for God himself scarce knows Why ever he created that worthless Brier-Rose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hand me a boat-hook, lads, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I'll break the lock."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ho! good-for-nothing Brier-Rose, your tongue was ever bold."
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heaven knows Whatever will become of the naughty Brier-Rose!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Deposuit potentes De sede, et exaltavit humiles _; And slowly lifting up his kingly head, He to a learned clerk beside him said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What mean those words? The clerk made answer meet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has put down the mighty from their seat, And has exalted them of low degree. Thereat King Robert muttered scornfully,"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is there? Half choked with rage, King Robert fiercely said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open; 'tis I, the king! Art thou afraid? The frightened sexton, muttering with a curse,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is some drunken vagabond, or worse!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who art thou, and why com'st thou here? To which King Robert answered with a sneer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am the king, and come to claim my own From an impostor, who usurps my throne! And suddenly, at these audacious words, Up sprang the angry guests, and drew their swords; The angel answered with unruffled brow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, not the king, but the king's jester; thou Henceforth shalt wear the bells and scalloped cape And for thy counselor shalt lead an ape; Thou shalt obey my servants when they call, And wait upon my henchmen in the hall!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Long live the king!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was a dream!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art thou the king? the passion of his woe Burst from him in resistless overflow. And lifting high his forehead, he would fling The haughty answer back,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am, I am the king!"
}
]
|
18909 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am the king! Look and behold in me Robert, your brother, King of Sicily! This man, who wears my semblance to your eyes, Is an impostor in a king's disguise. Do you not know me? Does no voice within Answer my cry, and say we are akin? The Pope in silence, but with troubled mien, Gazed at the angel's countenance serene; The Emperor, laughing, said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is strange sport To keep a mad man for thy fool at court!"
}
]
|
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