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Robert W Service - The BohemianRobert W Service - The Bohemian
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Up in my garret bleak and bare I tilted back on my broken chair, And my three old pals were with me there,        Hunger and Thirst and Cold; Hunger scowled at his scurvy mate: Cold cowered down by the hollow grate, And I hated them with a deadly hate        As old as life is old. So up in my garret that`s near the sky I smiled a smile that was thin and dry: "You`ve roomed with me twenty year," said I,         "Hunger and Thirst and Cold; But now, begone down the broken stair! I`ve suffered enough of your spite . . . so there!" Bang! Bang! I slapped on the table bare        A glittering heap of gold. "Red flames will jewel my wine to-night; I`ll loose my belt that you`ve lugged so tight; Ha! Ha! Dame Fortune is smiling bright;        The stuff of my brain I`ve sold; Canaille of the gutter, up! Away! You`ve battened on me for a bitter-long day; But I`m driving you forth, and forever and aye,        Hunger and Thirst and Cold." So I kicked them out with a scornful roar; Yet, oh, they turned at the garret door; Quietly there they spoke once more:        "The tale is not all told. It`s au revoir, but it`s not good-by; We`re yours, old chap, till the day you die; Laugh on, you fool! Oh, you`ll never defy        Hunger and Thirst and Cold."
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