Vulgar words in The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 (Page 1)
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Then every cross-bow had a string, And every heart a fetter; And making love was quite the thing, And making verses better; And maiden-aunts were never seen, And gallant beaux were plenty; And lasses married at sixteen, And died at one-and-twenty.
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I think that Smith is thought an ass,-- I know that when they walk in grass She wears balmorals.
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"The mass ough' to labor an' we lay on soffies, Thet's the reason I want to spread Freedom's aree; It puts all the cunninest on us in office, An' reelises our Maker's orig'nal idee," Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he;-- "Thet's ez plain," sez Cass, "Ez thet some one's an ass, It's ez clear ez the sun is at noon," sez he.
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Why, blockhead, are you mad?
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Sometimes to view his kingdoms,--rode forth this monarch good, And then a prancing jackass--he royally bestrode.
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He caught their manners, looks, and airs; An ass in everything but ears!
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In truthful numbers be she sung, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue; Concerning whom, Fame hints at things Told but in shrugs and whisperings: Ambitious from her natal hour, And scheming all her life for power; With little left of seemly pride; With venomed fangs she cannot hide; Who half makes love to you to-day, To-morrow gives her guest away.