"Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell; How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years— The horrible Light-house of Hell!"
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The Rum-hole, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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McDonald Clarke
1798 – 1842
McDonald Clarke (1798 – 1842) was a poet of some fame in New York in the early part of the 19th century.
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