From Hiram Maxim's hair you'd think His specialty was spilling ink-- You'd never dream he'd spilt more blood Than any one man since the Flood.
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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"
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