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l.ot that they're beat by thieves or worse But bruised black by Noah's curse Stand baok, who say with silent brow Sir, we are holier than thou.. These are the passengers we want An such we'll have by hook or Slant 3ays Cap- Snug &. evory hand Shall do his best the same to land If not in Orleans in Spring creek To cool &. cleans them for a week From dirt & drink - both bad tis true And Pharisees Tempers too But spring creek's swelling surge These latter mentioned cannot purge Nor less than Bariphlegethon If so by Joe will ship them on Fourteenth of June in eighteen forty two 'Tis said by some, perhaps it may be true That Solomon, tho' neither King nor Jew But campbellite & acting esquire too By virtue of his office firmly tied Henry to Mary as his lawful bride Llary, as bait by fishermen thrown out Took first a Clark & now has caught a Troutt The first escaped in backanalian floods And left, they say his Mary in the suds But Troutt to Bacchus not a devotee Will hold the bait till death death ffiftii