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[LI. The beef-faced brute who leads this band]
The beef-faced brute who leads this band,
And serves as mouth-piece for the crew,
I pity; for I understand
His school-days were but brief and few.
And serves as mouth-piece for the crew,
I pity; for I understand
His school-days were but brief and few.
I'll take him as I find him then,
Rude, coarse, ill-mannered, vulgar, blunt;
Expecting nothing from the pen
But the swine's voice, a simple grunt.
Rude, coarse, ill-mannered, vulgar, blunt;
Expecting nothing from the pen
But the swine's voice, a simple grunt.
Grace and indulgence shall be his:
He cannot speak without abuse
Of something, though that something is,
Chiefly, the language which we use.
He cannot speak without abuse
Of something, though that something is,
Chiefly, the language which we use.
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