Vulgar words in The Dead Men's Song - Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison (Page 1)
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And there they lay-- Aye, damn my eyes!-- All lookouts clapped On paradise-- All souls bound just contrariwise-- Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
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And if I may speak with well intentioned frankness: He's a damn good editor, too!
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His sole reason is that the "Bowdlerized" and bastard version which he printed had been _copied from a manuscript written into an old book printed in 1843_!
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Well, damn me, I can't help my own genius and do not care for its products because I can always make more, and I compose these things for my own satisfaction.
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'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead, Or a gaping hole in a battered head, And the scuppers' glut of a rotting red; And there they lay, ay, damn my eyes, Their lookouts clapped on Paradise, Their souls gone just the contrawise-- Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!