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THE TURTLE
by Various Authors (compiled by Burton Egbert Stevenson)

Cæsar, afloat with his fortunes!
And all the world agog
Straining its eyes
At a thing that lies
In the water, like a log!
It's a weasel! a whale!
I see its tail!
It's a porpoise! a pollywog!
Tarnation! it's a
turtle
!
And blast my bones and skin,
My hearties, sink her,
Or else you'll think her
A regular terror-pin!
The frigate poured a broadside!
The bombs they whistled well,
But—hit old Nick
With a sugar stick!
It didn't phase her shell!
Piff
, from the creature's larboard—
And dipping along the water
A bullet hissed
From a wreath of mist
Into a Doodle's quarter!
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Raff
, from the creature's starboard—
Rip
, from his ugly snorter,
And the Congress and
The Cumberland
Sunk, and nothing—shorter.
Now, here's to you, Virginia,
And you are bound to win!
By your rate of bobbing round
And your way of pitchin' in—
For you are a cross
Of the old sea-hoss
And a regular terror-pin.

Source: Project Gutenberg

Source: Project Gutenberg