The curse of hell upon the sleek upstart That got the Captain finally on his back And took the red red vitals of his heart And made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack.
ATTRIBUTION:
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), U.S. poet. Captain Carpenter (l. 61–64). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
