I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.
ATTRIBUTION:
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), U.S. poet. Captain Carpenter (l. 45–48). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
