Vulgar words in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete (Page 1)
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Children, with drums Strapped round them by the fond paternal ass; Peripatetics with a blade of grass Between their thumbs.
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Think not I come, in manhood's fiery noon, To steal his laurels from the stage buffoon; His sword of lath the harlequin may wield; Behold the star upon my lifted shield Though the just critic pass my humble name, And sweeter lips have drained the cup of fame, While my gay stanza pleased the banquet's lords, The soul within was tuned to deeper chords!
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Oh might these couplets their attention claim That gain their author the Philistine's name (A stubborn race, that, spurning foreign law, Was much belabored with an ass's jaw.)
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PART THIRD THE CONQUEST "Who saw this hussy when she came?
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WHAT WE ALL THINK THAT age was older once than now, In spite of locks untimely shed, Or silvered on the youthful brow; That babes make love and children wed. That sunshine had a heavenly glow, Which faded with those "good old days" When winters came with deeper snow, And autumns with a softer haze.