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Three times I had the lust to kill,
To clutch a throat so young and fair,
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I deem that there are lyric days
So ripe with radiance and cheer,
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My virtues in Carara stone
Cut carefully you all my scan;
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Never knew Jim, did you? Our boy Jim?
Bless you, there was the likely lad;
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To smite Apollo's lyre I am unable;
Of loveliness, alas! I cannot sing.
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There once was a limpet puffed with pride
Who said to the ribald sea:
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Deeming that I were better dead,
"How shall I kill myself?" I said.
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We bore him to his boneyard lot
One afternoon at three;
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You see that sheaf of slender books
Upon the topmost shelf,
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Black ants have made a musty mound
My purple pine tree under,
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I do not swear because I am
A sweet and sober guy;
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A-sitttin' on a cracker box an' spittin' in the stove,
I took a sudden notion that I'd kindo' like to rove;
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When I was daft (as urchins are),
And full if fairy lore,
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He stared at me with sad, hurt eyes,
That drab, untidy man;
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Let us have birthdays every day,
(I had the thought while I was shaving)
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Behold! I'm old; my hair is white;
My eighty years are in the offing,
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One spoke: "Come, let us gaily go
With laughter, love and lust,
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Of all the meals that glad my day
My morning one's the best;
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My brother Jim's a millionaire,
while I have scarce a penny;
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She
I'm waiting for the man I hope to wed.
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Said darling daughter unto me:
"oh Dad, how funny it would be
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Cinderella in the street
In a ragged gown,
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He used to say: There ain't a doubt
Misfortune is a bitter pill,
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Though I defy the howling horde
As bloody-browed I smite,
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Bed and bread are all I need
In my happy day;
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"Carry your suitcase, Sir?" he said.
I turned away to hide a grin,
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Birds have no consciousness of doom:
Yon thrush that serenades me daily
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I am a Day . . .
My sky is grey,
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Old Man Death's a lousy heel who will not play the game:
Let Graveyard yawn and doom down crash, he'll sneer and turn away.
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Before the florid portico
I watched the gamblers come and go,
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As I go forth from fair to mart
With racket ringing,
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My flask of wine was ruby red
And swift I ran my sweet to see;
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I know how father's strap would feel,
If ever I were caught,
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"I'll do the old dump in a day,"
He told me in his brittle way.
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As you gaze beyond the bay
With such wanness in your eyes,
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To hell with Government I say;
I'm sick of all the piddling pack.
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Dusting my books I spent a busy day:
Not ancient toes, time-hallowed and unread,
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The God of Scribes looked down and saw
The bitter band of seven,
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'Twas on an iron, icy day
I saw a pirate gull down-plane,
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I had a bitter enemy,
His heart to hate he gave,
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Said he: "You saw the Master clear;
By Rushy Pond alone he sat,
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I grabbed the new Who's Who to see
My name - but it was not.
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A ray of sun strayed softly round,
For something to caress,
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Two men I saw reel from a bar
And stumble down the street;
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Ah me! How hard is destiny!
If we could only know. . . .
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success;
he may not own his roof-tree overhead,
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All day he lay upon the sand
When summer sun was bright,
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In London City I evade
For charming Burlington Arcade -
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In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free,
An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree,
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I am the Cannon King, behold!
I perish on a throne of gold.
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"A year to live," the Doctor said;
"There is no cure," and shook his head.
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Deeming that I was due to die
I framed myself a coffin;
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'Twas in a pub just off the Strand
When I was in my cups,
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Being a writer I receive
Sweet screeds from folk of every land;
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The world is sadly sick, they say,
And plagued by woe and pain.
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I have a house I've lived in long:
I can't recall my going in.
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I have a tiny piney wood;
my trees are only fifty,
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If she met him or he met her,
I knew that something must occur;
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Of twin daughters I'm the mother -
Lord! how I was proud of them;
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To tribulations of mankind
Dame Nature is indifferent;
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A pote is sure a goofy guy;
He ain't got guts like you or I
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There were twin artists A. and B.
Who painted pictures two,
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My garden hath a slender path
With ivy overgrown,
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The English and the French were met
Upon the field of future battle;
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The lady at the corner wicket
Sold me a stamp, I stooped to lick it,
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"If you repent," the Parson said,"
Your sins will be forgiven.
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He had the grocer's counter-stoop,
That little man so grey and neat;
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Here lyeth one
Who loved the sun;
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Ruins in Rome are four a penny,
And here along the Appian Way
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'Tis hard to hang a husky lad
When larks are in the sky;
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Obit 23rd April 1616
Is it not strange that on this common date,
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Someone's Mother trails the street
Wrapt in rotted rags;
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When I was boxing in the ring
In 'Frisco back in ninety-seven,
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It was foretold by sybils three
that in an air crash he would die.
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Said Jock McBrown to Tam McSmith,
"A little bet I'm game to take on,
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