Is it one wid this you'd be, Yank — black smoke from the fu… - Eugene O'Neill

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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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About Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

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Native Name: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Alternative Names: Eugene O’Neill • Eugene Gladstone O’Neill • Eugene G. O'Neill

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