E. J. Brady

“ High o'er Eternity!
Who thinks of that? Not I, not you,
Not he who most complains,
When leaping fire the blood swirls through
Our thumping hearts and veins.
'T is “Fast she is!” ... “Now! .. Let her go!” ”

“ As hogs and humans can,
He also made, so runs the round,
To feed the whaler-man.
The whaler-man will get his “lay,”
The whaler's pig his share —
First whale, then pig, then man. Some day
The worm will make it square!
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