Alternative ending missing last verse and Moral:

The briny drops from Reuben's eyes,
In torrents poured down
He yielded up the ghost and di-ed
SPOKEN: And in this melancholy and heartrending manner terminates the history of Reuben Wright and Phoebe Brown, and likewise]
Old Captain Brown


The Lancaster Examiner
Lancaster, Pennsylvania · Wednesday, February 25, 1852