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"IN MEMORIAM' 



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" A ghastly sight it is to see 

 My Second bleeding there, 

 Distorted now those features, erst 



So perfect and so fair ; 

 No art can dress that gory tress 

 Of dark, luxuriant hair. 



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" This is a scene from history's page, 

 The triumph of might and wrong ; 



That barbarous age has passed away 



With the power of the proud and strong ; 



But still in our day by law we slay 

 To teach the erring throng. 



" To show our abhorrence of shedding blood 

 We send the murderer's soul, 

 Unfit, I ween, to meet his judge. 



To a last and awful goal. 

 He who can draw good from such law 

 Must be my senseless Whole." 



Solutions of the Enigmas. 

 I. Donkey. 2. Ireland. 3. Smithfield. 4. Blockhead. 



