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The Spook Ballads

HERADIC FRUITS OF A FAMILY TREE

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HERADIC FRUITS OF A FAMILY TREE By a Lyin' King Of Arms
HERADIC FRUITS OF A FAMILY TREE By a Lyin' King Of Arms
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WHEN Cha, the first, Was run to ground, An Ancestorial Mite was found; By Rails in Pale, At Dexter Chief, From Judges' wig, He pipes his grief. HIS deeds, of later Life, did tend, To prove him of The Sinister Bend; As boozing Charge, He takes his place, From Sinister Chief, To Dexter Base. HIS son, did Charge In Sable Chief, A Sword, or he Had come to grief; That Chief above, From Sinister, part, Has got,—per Fesse— That Sword in Heart! ANOTHER Son, Of prudent parts, Doth Pawn his Arms, For peaceful arts; From Dexter or, On Shield of Gu, In pale, reguardant Sinister Jew. ANOTHER Son, From want appeald, To art, for Charge, On Argent Shield, And so, upon His Coat he drew A Garb, that he Might dare, and do HE sought to Void A hen-coup, he Is Trussed above it, On a tree; Couchant, in Chief, With Spade, in Fesse, A sorry wight, He must confess. AT length, an Orient Pile, he took, Then Counterchanged, His Coat for luck! This Dexter treatment, Is not right; He's Or, on Ar, The lawless wight! BUT ah! at last, His fate was healed And by command, Got Royal Shield; A Dexter King, Reguardant, won! He dyed, and left An "only Son."

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