Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. Killis Campbell), “A West Point Lampoon,” The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Ginn and Company, 1917, pp. 138-139


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[page 138, continued:]

A WEST POINT LAMPOON

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As for Locke, he is all in my eye,

May the d—l right soon for his soul call.

He never was known to lie —

In bed at a reveille roll-call. [page 139:]

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John Locke was a notable name;

Joe Locke is a greater: in short,

The former was well known to fame,

But the latter's well known “to report.”

 


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Notes:

None.

 

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