Name/Title
Lucius PizoEntry/Object ID
JJA.1938.451Description
This is a handwritten manuscript of a poem entitled "Lucius Pizo." The transcription is as follows:
"Lusius Piso, 1, Once on a time still lived in state A man named Lusius Piso Grandfather of old Caesar great Whose works we now do read. Oh!
2 . There were two Pisos brave and bold Whose names they got much muddied Father in law and Grandaddie old Who in a war was fuddled
3. Caesar was _________ & straight way went To war with those bad people On murder was his bad eye bent To hang them from a steeple
4. But soon he got into a fix Turned neither left nor right For which were his men in the mix. He could not tell aright.
5. So home he went with blackened eye with warriors bruised & gory, and sat down - began to cry as you do o'er my story _____ _______ _______"Collection
L. S. Tyler CollectionLexicon
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* Communication Artifacts, Manuscripts, PoemsDimensions
Height
8-13/16 inWidth
5-13/16 in