Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton

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    It’s up the spout and Charley Wag
    With wipes and tickers and what not
    Until the squeezer nips your scrag,
    Booze and the blowens cop the lot.
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    Hearing your words, and not a word among them
    Tuned to my liking, on a salty day
    When inland woods were pushed by winds, that flung them
    Hissing to leeward like a ton of spray,
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    You common people of the skies,
    What are you when the moon doth rise?
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)