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funeral procession. The only led horse was his 

 charger, not ' Copenhagen/ but the animal which he 

 was in the habit of riding in his last years. Yet 

 the riderless steed, pacing behind its master's bier, 

 awakened the emotions of the gazing thousands with 

 an appeal more potent and direct than that of all 

 the accumulated pomp which preceded it. 



