Vulgar words in Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon (Page 1)
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I shall go till I drop;" Says he, "Go it, old cuss, gay and festive."
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In the low branches heavily laden with dew, In the long grasses spoiling with deadwood that day, Where the blackwood, the box, and the bastard oak grew, Between the tall gum-trees we gallop'd away-- We crash'd through a brush fence, we splash'd through a swamp-- We steered for the north near "The Eaglehawk's Nest"-- We bore to the left, just beyond "The Red Camp", And round the black tea-tree belt wheel'd to the west-- We cross'd a low range sickly scented with musk From wattle-tree blossom--we skirted a marsh-- Then the dawn faintly dappled with orange the dusk, And peal'd overhead the jay's laughter note harsh, And shot the first sunstreak behind us, and soon The dim dewy uplands were dreamy with light; And full on our left flash'd "The Reedy Lagoon", And sharply "The Sugarloaf" rear'd on our right.
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He: Come to the bank where the boat is moor'd to the willow-tree low; Bertha, the baby, won't notice, Brian, the blockhead, won't know.
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She: Bertha is not such a baby, sir, as you seem to suppose; Brian, a blockhead he may be, more than you think for he knows.
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Orion: First, your strife is all a sham, you Know as well as I which wins; Second, waking sins will damn you, Never mind your sleeping sins; Both your questions thus I answer; Listen, ere you seek or shun: I at least am no romancer, What you long for may be won.
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The blockhead abuses Me and the life I lead.
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Ourselves we damn-- [To Orion, with sudden passion] Serpent!