"Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out."
— Will Carleton

January 1, 1970

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19th-century poets from the United StatesJournalists from Michigan
Original Language: English

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"Betsy and I Are Out", st. 1, in the Toledo Blade and Harper’s Weekly (c. 1871), reprinted in Farm Ballads (1874) and misattributed to the Irish William Carleton (1794–1869) in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd ed. (1955) p. 125