How they who use fusees All grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre as lizards Go mad, and beat their wives Plunge (after shocking lives)Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.
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Complete with hat and gloves, One on and one a-dangle i' my hand, And ombrifuge (Lord love you), case o' rain. I flopp'd forth, 'sbuddikins on my own ten toes.
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Thou who, when fears attack, Bidst them avaunt, and Black; Care, at the horseman's back; Perching, unseatest; Sweet, when the morn is gray; Sweet when they've cleared away; Lunch and at close of day; Possibly sweetest.
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The heart which grief hath cankered; Hath one unfailing remedy - the; Tankard.
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You see this pebble-stone It's a thing I bought Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day -I like to dock the smaller parts-o'-speech, As we curtail the already cur-tail'd cur.
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