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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUITE SO, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: There was a man in our town
Last Line: Who dragged him off to jail
Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition
First Line: There was a man in our town
Last Line: Who dragged him off to jail
Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition
There was a man in our town
And he was wondrous dry;
He fell into a fitful sleep
And dreamed a quart of Rye.
And when he saw what he had dreamed
(Oh, Virtue shall prevail!)
He dreamed a horde of Volstead spies
Who dragged him off to jail.
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