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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Jock

Robert J. Roe

From “A Sailor’s Note-book”

THEY ask me why I get drunk,

Un I tell them:

Whatfor when I come im port

I carry all the sea across mine shoulders

Un wouldn’t nobody help me;

Only Jock, the bar-man,

Smiles un takes load

Un puts im corner.

When mine money is all gone

Jock gives me back the sea.