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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936).  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.  1912–22.
 
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By Robert J. Roe
 
From “A Sailor's Note-book”

IM Wellington port I quarrel with Alec
If ship is French or Swede full-rigger.
I get mighty hot,
Un Alec get pretty mad.
Un all of sudden I hear us        5
Like somebody was cracking straws in mine ear
Un I let Alec say I am wrong.
 
 
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