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Sure he hasn't got much of a bark | 3 |
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark. | 4 |
But O, Wreneagle Almighty, wouldn't un be a sky of a lark | 5 |
To see that old buzzard whooping about for uns shirt in the dark | 6 |
And he hunting round for uns speckled trousers around by Palmer- | 7 |
stown Park? | 8 |
Hohohoho, moulty Mark! | 9 |
You're the rummest old rooster ever flopped out of a Noah's ark | 10 |
And you think you're cock of the wark. | 11 |
Fowls, up! Tristy's the spry young spark | 12 |
That'll tread her and wed her and bed her and red her | 13 |
Without ever winking the tail of a feather | 14 |
And that's how that chap's going to make his money and mark! | 15 |
Overhoved, shrillgleescreaming. That song sang seaswans. | 16 |
The winging ones. Seahawk, seagull, curlew and plover, kestrel | 17 |
and capercallzie. All the birds of the sea they trolled out rightbold | 18 |
when they smacked the big kuss of Trustan with Usolde. | 19 |
And there they were too, when it was dark, whilest the wild- | 20 |
caps was circling, as slow their ship, the winds aslight, upborne | 21 |
the fates, the wardorse moved, by courtesy of Mr Deaubaleau | 22 |
Downbellow Kaempersally, listening in, as hard as they could, in | 23 |
Dubbeldorp, the donker, by the tourneyold of the wattarfalls, | 24 |
with their vuoxens and they kemin in so hattajocky (only a | 25 |