a-soarin

Updated: May 16, 2025

For in the highest places of trust and honor in the United States to-day is to be found the sons and daughters of country homes." Here, at jest this juncture, my umbrell fell out of my hand, and it brung my eyes down to earth agin; for some time, entirely onbeknown to me, I had been a-lookin' up into the encirclin' heavens, and a-soarin' round there in oratory.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair