The Saturday Evening Post » Abigail Cresson http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com Home of The Saturday Evening Post Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:14:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 God-Fearing Mrs. Bates http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/11/28/archives/classic-fiction/godfearing-bates.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=godfearing-bates http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/11/28/archives/classic-fiction/godfearing-bates.html#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:00:01 +0000 Abigail Cresson http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=14554 Old Mrs. Bates is always Peeping through her curtain, Peering up and down the street, Making very certain Of the wicked goings on Of all of her neighbors To and from their roisterers, To and from their labors— Her nose is keen for gossip As a pointer’s for a pheasant— And all she knows about [...]

God-Fearing Mrs. Bates The Saturday Evening Post

]]> Old Mrs. Bates is always
Peeping through her curtain,
Peering up and down the street,
Making very certain
Of the wicked goings on
Of all of her neighbors
To and from their roisterers,
To and from their labors—
Her nose is keen for gossip
As a pointer’s for a pheasant—
And all she knows about them is
Remarkably unpleasant.
With hand before her pursed-up lips,
Whispering, she goes
From one house to another
To hint of what she knows.

God-fearing, righteous Mrs. Bates,
How she does revel in
The fact that she is living
In a world so filled with sin!

February 11, 1950, The Saturday Evening Post

God-Fearing Mrs. Bates The Saturday Evening Post

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