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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419574" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Captain Carpenter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime <br>Put on his pistols and went riding out <br>But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time <br>Till he fell in with ladies in a rout. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a pretty lady and all her train <br>That played with him so sweetly but before <br>An hour she'd taken a sword with all her main <br>And twined him of his nose for evermore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Captain Carpenter mounted up one day <br>And rode straightway into a stranger rogue <br>That looked unchristian but be that as may <br>The Captain did not wait upon prologue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But drew upon him out of his great heart <br>The other swung against him with a club <br>And cracked his two legs at the shinny part <br>And let him roll and stick like any tub. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Captain Carpenter rode many a time <br>From male and female took he sundry harms <br>He met the wife of Satan crying &quot;I'm <br>The she-wolf bids you shall bear no more arms. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their strokes and counters whistled in the wind <br>I wish he had delivered half his blows <br>But where she should have made off like a hind <br>The bitch bit off his arms at the elbows. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Captain Carpenter parted with his ears <br>To a black devil that used him in this wise <br>O Jesus ere his threescore and ten years <br>Another had plucked out his sweet blue eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Captain Carpenter got up on his roan <br>And sallied from the gate in hell's despite <br>I heard him asking in the grimmest tone <br>If any enemy yet there was to fight? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;To any adversary it is fame <br>If he risk to be wounded by my tongue <br>Or burnt in two beneath my red heart's flame <br>Such are the perils he is cast among. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;But if he can he has a pretty choice <br>From an anatomy with little to lose <br>Whether he cut my tongue and take my voice <br>Or whether it be my round red heart he choose. &quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was the neatest knave that ever was seen <br>Stepping in perfume from his lady's bower <br>Who at this word put in his merry mien <br>And fell on Captain Carpenter like a tower. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would not knock old fellows in the dust <br>But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back <br>His weapons were the old heart in his bust <br>And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rogue in scarlet and grey soon knew his mind. <br>He wished to get his trophy and depart <br>With gentle apology and touch refined <br>He pierced him and produced the Captain's heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">God's mercy rest on Captain Carpenter now (a, <br>I thought him Sirs an honest gentleman <br>Citizen husband soldier and scholar enow <br>Let jangling kites eat of him if they can. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But God's deep curses follow after those <br>That shore him of his goodly nose and ears <br>His legs and strong arms at the two elbows <br>And eyes that had not watered seventy years. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The curse of hell upon the sleek upstart <br>That got the Captain finally on his back <br>And took the red red vitals of his heart <br>And made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Crowe+Ransom">John Crowe Ransom</a><div class=q>
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Put on his pistols and went riding out 
But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time 
Till he fell in with ladies in a rout. 

It was a pretty lady and all her train 
That played with him so sweetly but before ..."></div>
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