Put down the apple Adam
Mortality is fatal
Gentility is fine
Rascality, heroic
Insolvency, sublime[…]
A coward will remain, Sir
Until the fight is done;
But an immortal hero
Will take his hat and run…
- This entry’s title is from the same poem; the stanza runs:
Put down the apple Adam
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And come away with me
So shal’t thou have a pippin
From off my Father’s tree!