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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MARTYR, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: My wife and seven daughters,' said g
Last Line: Gravel carters, that girls may have a treat!
Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives
First Line: My wife and seven daughters,' said g
Last Line: Gravel carters, that girls may have a treat!
Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers & Daughters; Relatives
"MY wife and seven daughters," said G. Augustus Grimes, "beside the briny waters
are having gorgeous times. This climate is a hummer for heat and dust and flies,
and so they'll spend the summer beneath more kindly skies." I said, "But why in
Cadiz are you thus left behind? Why don't you join the ladies, and drop this
beastly grind?" "That girls may have their pleasure, some man must find the
dimes, and so I hump for treasure," said G. Augustus Grimes. "I like to sweat
and swelter, to give the girls a treat, and so I leave my shelter, and tread the
burning street, to earn an extra shilling, that they may have their fun; of
course, I'm more than willing to keep them staked with mon. My daughters all are
peaches, my wife's a lollipop, and on the ocean beaches long may they bask and
flop." Oh, cheerful, manly martyrs, who drag their spavined feet, and toil like
gravel carters, that girls may have a treat!
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