Vulgar words in Georgian Poetry 1911-12 (Page 1)

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damn x 3
hussy x 1
            

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there the chestnuts, summer through, Beside the river make for you A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep Deeply above; and green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath, Green as a dream and deep as death.-- Oh, damn!

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'A damn bad sailor and a landshark too, No good in port or out'--my granddad said.

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Oars bent, Soul took the looms now body's bolt was spent, 'Damn it, come on now.'

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Them he, his beard disguised like face-ache, sauced; (Too gaily for that bandaged cheek, thought I); But they, whose business was to think, Were quite contented, let the hussy pass, Returned her kisses blown back down the road, And crowned the mirth of their outwitter's heart.

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