'My Uncle Toby Swore an Oath'
Creator
Dickens, Charles
Source
The New York Public Library's Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dc8c3f00-7ba7-0131-1f26-58d385a7b928#/?uuid=dcbabae0-7ba7-0131-8130-58d385a7b928.
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Bibliographic Citation
Dickens, Charles. 'My Uncle Toby Swore an Oath' (14 April 1857). Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Middleton and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1857-04-14_My_Uncle_Toby_Swore_an_Oath.
Transcription
My Uncle Toby swore an oath, - and when
The busy Angel with the book and pen
Made haste to enter it, his Heav’nly grief
Blotted the word from the virgin leaf.
I swore an oath, - that I would never rhyme
In any album, to the end of Time.
I wish the Angel of this book would blot
my oath’s infraction, from the present spot!
The busy Angel with the book and pen
Made haste to enter it, his Heav’nly grief
Blotted the word from the virgin leaf.
I swore an oath, - that I would never rhyme
In any album, to the end of Time.
I wish the Angel of this book would blot
my oath’s infraction, from the present spot!
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Citation
Dickens, Charles, “'My Uncle Toby Swore an Oath',” Dickens Search, accessed September 16, 2026, https://www.dickenssearch.com/verse/1857-04-14_My_Uncle_Toby_Swore_an_Oath.