Who ordered people around, loved glittering girls, Threw out his chest and died for a bloody flag And then revived to be thanked by gilt generals, A schoolboy Shippy, eating the big boys’ lunch. It was his totem. He visioned that Shippy now, Reckless Shippy with papers sewed in his boots, Slyly carrying fate through the Rebel lines To some bright place where⁠—

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