A Choice of Comic and Curious VerseJohn Michael Cohen |
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Page 111
... thought the last of all my cares Would end with my last minute ; But tho ' I went to my long home , I didn't stay long in it . The body - snatchers they have come , And made a snatch at me ; It's very hard them kind of men Won't let a ...
... thought the last of all my cares Would end with my last minute ; But tho ' I went to my long home , I didn't stay long in it . The body - snatchers they have come , And made a snatch at me ; It's very hard them kind of men Won't let a ...
Page 154
... thought I should ' ave died , Knocked ' em in the Old Kent Road ! Some says nasty things about the moke , One cove thinks ' is leg is really broke , That's ' is envy , cos we're carriage folk , Like the Toffs as rides in Rotten Row ...
... thought I should ' ave died , Knocked ' em in the Old Kent Road ! Some says nasty things about the moke , One cove thinks ' is leg is really broke , That's ' is envy , cos we're carriage folk , Like the Toffs as rides in Rotten Row ...
Page 415
... thought he saw full many a gem Of purest ray serene : He looked again and saw it was A dose of Mescalin : The price of visions is , he said , The headaches in between . He thought he saw the Holy Ghost Lamenting in a mist : He looked ...
... thought he saw full many a gem Of purest ray serene : He looked again and saw it was A dose of Mescalin : The price of visions is , he said , The headaches in between . He thought he saw the Holy Ghost Lamenting in a mist : He looked ...
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