Viz., "drat" and "dash" and "blow" and "blight";
While "blithering" and "blinkin'" were
My only adjectival pair.
I freely own that "dash" and "drat"
At times sound lamentably flat;
And "blight" and "blow" don't somehow seem
Quite adequate to every theme.
When you are wishful to be withering
'Tis hard to be confined to "blithering,"
And to express explosive thinkin'