{"id":"01KG8AK0QRM2CYS0G9GE20QGMN","cid":"bafkreidc4qaihsblvgisvxw3zjnbsajab3xf32en4zjsc25aoxjh4wv7k4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":705,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:50.352Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4","start_line":616,"text":"Such scurvy doom could the chances deal\r\nTo Top-Gallant Harry and Jack Genteel?\r\nLo, Genteel Jack in hurricane weather,\r\nShagged like a bear, like a red lion roaring;\r\nBut O, so fine in his chapeau and feather,\r\nIn port to the ladies never once _jawing;_\r\nAll bland _politesse,_ how urbane was he—\r\n_“Oui, mademoiselle”—“Ma chère amie!”_\r\n\r\n’T was Jack got up the ball at Naples,\r\nGay in the old _Ohio_ glorious;\r\nHis hair was curled by the berth-deck barber,\r\nNever you’d deemed him a cub of rude Boreas;\r\nIn tight little pumps, with the grand dames in rout,\r\nA-flinging his shapely foot all about;\r\nHis watch-chain with love’s jeweled tokens abounding,\r\nCurls ambrosial shaking out odors,\r\nWaltzing along the batteries, astounding\r\nThe gunner glum and the grim-visaged loaders.\r\n\r\nWife, where be all these blades, I wonder,\r\nPennoned fine fellows, so strong, so gay?\r\nNever their colors with a dip dived under;\r\nHave they hauled them down in a lack-lustre day,\r\nOr beached their boats in the Far, Far Away?\r\nHither and thither, blown wide asunder,\r\nWhere’s this fleet, I wonder and wonder.\r\nSlipt their cables, rattled their adieu,\r\n(Whereaway pointing? to what rendezvous?)\r\nOut of sight, out of mind, like the crack _Constitution,_\r\nAnd many a keel time never shall renew—\r\n_Bon Homme Dick_ o’ the buff Revolution,\r\nThe _Black Cockade_ and the staunch _True-Blue._\r\n\r\nDoff hats to Decatur! But where is his blazon?\r\nMust merited fame endure time’s wrong—\r\nGlory’s ripe grape wizen up to a raisin?\r\nYes! for Nature teems, and the years are strong,\r\nAnd who can keep the tally o’ the names that fleet along!\r\n\r\nBut his frigate, wife, his bride? Would blacksmiths brown\r\nInto smithereens smite the solid old renown?\r\nRivetting the bolts in the iron-clad’s shell,\r\nHark to the hammers with _a rat-tat-tat;_\r\n“Handier a _derby_ than a laced cocked hat!\r\nThe _Monitor_ was ugly, but she served us right well,\r\nBetter than the _Cumberland,_ a beauty and the belle.”\r\n\r\n_Better than the Cumberland!_—Heart alive in me!\r\nThat battlemented hull, Tantallon o’ the sea,\r\nKicked in, as at Boston the taxed chests o’ tea!\r\nAy, spurned by the _ram,_ once a tall, shapely craft,\r\nBut lopped by the Rebs to an iron-beaked raft—\r\nA blacksmith’s unicorn in armor _cap-a-pie_.\r\n\r\nUnder the water-line a _ram’s_ blow is dealt:\r\nAnd foul fall the knuckles that strike below the belt.\r\nNor brave the inventions that serve to replace\r\nThe openness of valor while dismantling the grace.\r\n\r\nAloof from all this and the never-ending game,\r\nTantamount to teetering, plot and counterplot;\r\nImpenetrable armor—all-perforating shot;\r\nAloof, bless God, ride the war-ships of old,\r\nA grand fleet moored in the roadstead of fame;\r\nNot submarine sneaks with _them_ are enrolled;\r\nTheir long shadows dwarf us, their flags are as flame.\r\n\r\nDon’t fidget so, wife; an old man’s passion\r\nAmounts to no more than this smoke that I puff;\r\nThere, there, now, buss me in good old fashion;\r\nA died-down candle will flicker in the snuff.\r\n\r\nBut one last thing let your old babbler say,\r\nWhat Decatur’s coxswain said who was long ago hearsed,\r\n“Take in your flying-kites, for there comes a lubber’s day\r\nWhen gallant things will go, and the three-deckers first.”\r\n\r\nMy pipe is smoked out, and the grog runs slack;\r\nBut bowse away, wife, at your blessed Bohea;\r\nThis empty can here must needs solace me—\r\nNay, sweetheart, nay; I take that back;\r\nDick drinks from your eyes and he finds no lack!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTOM DEADLIGHT\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJF3V3MBHYBFMZPY1BDMZ","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AK0QRH826PP462ZZXC346","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:50.520Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:47:53.036Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}