Vulgar words in The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems (Page 1)
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Hear the big journal braying like an ass; Behold the brazen statesmen as they pass; See dapper poets hurrying for their dimes With hasty verses hammered out in rhymes: The Muses whisper--'"Tis the age of brass."
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Better a skillful cobbler at his last Than unlearned poet twangling on the lyre; Who sails on land and gallops on the blast, And mounts the welkin on a braying ass, Clattering a shattered cymbal bright with brass, And slips his girth and tumbles in the mire.
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No ass so obstinate as ignorance.
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'The Devil be damned' is what we preach, you know it-- At mass and vespers, holy-bread and dinner: From priest to pope, from pedagogue to poet, We sanctify the sin and damn the sinner.
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[85] _Michâbo_ or _Manni-bozo_--the Good Spirit of the Algonkins.