Vulgar words in The Seven Seas (Page 1)
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Hold ye the Faith-the Faith our Fathers sealèd us; Whoring not with visions-overwise and overstale.
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Welsh-Wangarti at the worst-an' damn all patent fuel!)
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Fair held our breeze behind us-'twas warm with lovers' prayers: We'd stolen wills for ballast and a crew of missing heirs; They shipped as Able Bastards till the Wicked Nurse confessed, And they worked the old three-decker to the Islands of the Blest.
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They're just beyond the skyline, howe'er so far you cruise In a ram-you-damn-you liner with a brace of bucking screws.
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The things I knew was proper you wouldn't thank me to give, And the things I knew was rotten you said was the way to live; For you muddled with books and pictures, an' china an' etchin's an' fans, [132] And your rooms at college was beastly-more like a whore's than a man's- Till you married that thin-flanked woman, as white and as stale as a bone, And she gave you your social nonsense; but where's that kid o' your own?
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To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about, Is nothing so bad when you've cover to 'and, an' leave an' likin' to shout; But to stand an' be still to the Birken'ead drill is a damn tough bullet to chew, An' they done it, the Jollies-'Er Majesty's Jollies-soldier an' sailor too!