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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 7: the Peninsula Campaign. (search)
r down James River a day or two later. I remember, too, that as the boat left the shouting thousands on the shore and swept out into the stream our glee club burst into the rollicking stanzas of Mynheer von Dunck --a song as good in verse and in music as it is bad in morals: Mynheer von Dunck, Though he never got drunk, Sipped brandy and water gaily; And he quenched his thirst With two quarts of the first To a pint of the latter, daily. Water well mingled with spirit, good store, No Hollander dreams of scorning; But of water alone he drinks no more Than the rose supplies When the dew drop lies On its bloom of a summer morning- For a Dutchman's draft should potent be, Though deep as the rolling Zuyder Zee. And as we steamed out of hearing of the pier the stout voices of the singers were publishing, with metrical and musical elaboration, the somewhat shady proposition that- A pretty girl who gets a kiss and runs and tells her mother, Does what she should not do and don'