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14 lines
525 B
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Fifteen {{noun plural}} on the {{adjective}} man's chest—
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Drink and the {{person}} had done for the rest—
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The {{person}} was {{verb -ed}} by the bos'n's pike.
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The bos'n {{verb -ed}} with a marlinspike
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And Cookey's {{noun}} was marked belike
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It had been gripped
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By {{noun plural}} ten;
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And there they lay,
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All {{adjective}} dead {{noun plural -en}},
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Like {{noun}} in a boozing-ken—
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Yo—ho—ho and a bottle of {{beverage}}!
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(Adapted from The Dead Man's Chest - Robert Louis Stevenson)
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