Is it one wid this you'd be, Yank — black smoke from the funnels smudging the sea, smudging the decks — the bloody engines pounding and throbbing and shaking — wid divil a sight of sun or a breath of clean air — choking our lungs wid coal dust — breaking our backs and hearts in the hell of the stokehole — feeding the bloody furnace — feeding our lives along wid the coal, I'm thinking — caged in by steel from a sight of the sky like bloody apes in the Zoo!
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Eugene O'Neill was a 19th-century American playwright. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia →