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"0", "0", "[Frontispiece]", SmallCapsText("The captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut.")) ?>
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StoryTitle("caps", "To the Hesitating Purchaser") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If sailor tales to sailor tunes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Storm and adventure, heat and cold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If schooners, islands, and maroons,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And buccaneers, and buried gold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the old romance, retold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Exactly in the ancient way,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can please, as me they pleased of old,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "The wiser youngsters of today:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—So be it, and fall on! If not,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "If studious youth no longer crave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His ancient appetites forgot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or Cooper of the wood and wave:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "So be it, also! And may I", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all my pirates share the grave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Where these and their creations lie!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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