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Famous Single Poems
ceeds in achieving the atmosphere of horror which Mr. Allison maintains so successfully. James Whitcomb Riley, who knew a good poem when he saw it, not long before his death sent to Mr. Allison the following stanza, which expresses perfectly the feelings of that gentleman’s admirers:
Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest—
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Young E. Allison done all the rest—
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
He’s sung this song for you and me,
Jest as it wuz—or ort to be—
Clean through time and eternity,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
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