Vulgar words in Complete Poetical Works (Page 1)

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ass x 4
cuss x 5
damn x 2
            

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Damn it!

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Anno Domini eighteen-seven, Father Dominguez (now in heaven,-- Obiit eighteen twenty-seven) Found the spring, and found it, too, By his mule's miraculous cast of a shoe; For his beast--a descendant of Balaam's ass-- Stopped on the instant, and would not pass.

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That little cuss?

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It was called after Dow,-- Which the same was an ass,-- And as to the how Thet the thing kem to pass,-- Jest tie up your hoss to that buckeye, and sit ye down here in the grass.

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), you see, kinder made the cuss blink.

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For you see the dern cuss had struck--"Water?"

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Thet's why it's Dow's Flat; And the thing of it is That he kinder got that Through sheer contrairiness: For 'twas WATER the derned cuss was seekin', and his luck made him certain to miss.

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Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass,--at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent.

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But they all allow that Sutter had begun a kind of mutter, when uprose Mr. Cutter with a sickening kind of ease, And proceeded then to wade in to the subject then prevadin': "Is Profanity degradin'?" in words like unto these: "Onlike the previous speaker, Mr. Sutter of Yreka, he was but a humble seeker--and not like him--a cuss"-- It was here that Mr. Sutter softly reached for Mr. Cutter, when the latter with a stutter said: "ac-customed to discuss."

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Some swore he had cooked up some villainous charm, Or love philter, not in the regular Pharm- Acopoeia, and thus, from pure malice prepense, Had bewitched and bamboozled the young lady's sense; Others thought, with more reason, the secret to lie In a magical wash or indelible dye; While Society, with its censorious eye And judgment impartial, stood ready to damn What wasn't improper as being a sham.

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Was I such an ass?

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