The man that hails you Tom or Jack,And proves, by thumping on your back,His sense of your great merit,Is such a friend that one had needBe very much his friend indeedTo pardon or to bear it.
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He hails from Snowy River, up by Kosciusko's side,Where the hills are twice as steep, and twice as rough;Where the horse's hoofs strike firelight from the flintstones every stride,The man that holds his own is good enough.And the Snowy River riders on the mountains make their home,Where the river runs those giant hills between;I have seen full many horsemen since I first commenced to roam,But nowhere yet such horsemen have I seen.
andrew patersonWhen asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox And its famous apple tree.
Miles O'ReillyIs life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here;
NEGRO Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
john brunner