James Gordon Bennett

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    And she straiked me three times o’er her knee;
    She changed me again to my ain proper shape,
    And I nae mair maun toddle about the tree.
    —Unknown. Alison Gross. . .

    Oxford Book of Ballads, The. James Kinsley, ed. (1969)

    My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    I want to hear the chanting
    Around a heathen fire
    Of a strange black race.
    —Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)