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A burning glass of burnished brass	A
The calm sea caught the noontide rays	B
And sunny slopes of golden grass	A
And wastes of weed flower seem to blaze	B
Beyond the shining silver greys	B
Beyond the shades of denser bloom	C
The sky line girt with glowing haze	B
The farthest faintest forest gloom	C
And the everlasting hills that loom	C
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We heard the hound beneath the mound	D
We scared the swamp hawk hovering nigh	E
We had not sought for that we found	D
He lay as dead men only lie	E
With wan cheek whitening in the sky	E
Through the wild heath flowers white and red	F
The dumb brute that had seen him die	E
Close crouching howl'd beside the head	F
Brute burial service o'er the dead	F
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The brow was rife with seams of strife	G
A lawless death made doubly plain	H
The ravage of a reckless life	G
The havoc of a hurricane	H
Of passions through that breadth of brain	H
Like headlong horses that had run	I
Riot regardless of the rein	H
Madman he might have lived and done	I
Better than most men whispered one	I
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The beams and blots that Heaven allots	B
To every life with life begin	J
Fool would you change the leopard's spots	B
Or blanch the Ethiopian's skin	J
What more could he have hoped to win	J
What better things have thought to gain	H
So shapen so conceived in sin	J
No life is wholly void and vain	H
Just and unjust share sun and rain	H
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Were new life sent and life misspent	K
Wiped out if such to God seemed good	L
Would he being as he was repent	K
Or could he even if he would	L
Who heeded not things understood	L
Though dimly even in savage lands	B
By some who worship stone or wood	L
Or bird or beast or who stretch hands	B
Sunward on shining Eastern sands	B
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And crime has cause Nay never pause	B
Idly to feel a pulseless wrist	M
Brace up the massive square shaped jaws	B
Unclench the stubborn stiff'ning fist	M
And close those eyes through film and mist	M
That kept the old defiant glare	N
And answer wise Psychologist	O
Whose science claims some little share	N
Of truth what better things lay there	N
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Aye thought and mind were there some kind	P
Of faculty that men mistake	Q
For talent when their wits are blind	P
An aptitude to mar and break	Q
What others diligently make	Q
This was the worst and best of him	R
Wise with the cunning of the snake	Q
Brave with the she wolf's courage grim	R
Dying hard and dumb torn limb from limb	R
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And you Brown you're a doctor cure	S
You can't but you can kill and he	T
Witness his mark he signed last year	U
And now he signs John Smith J P	T
We'll hold our inquest now we three	T
I'll be your coroner for once	B
I think old Oswald ought to be	T
Our foreman Jones is such a dunce	B
There's more brain in the bloodhound's sconce	B
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No man may shirk the allotted work	V
The deed to do the death to die	E
At least I think so neither Turk	V
Nor Jew nor infidel am I	E
And yet I wonder when I try	E
To solve one question may or must	O
And shall I solve it by and by	E
Beyond the dark beneath the dust	O
I trust so and I only trust	O
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Aye what they will such trifles kill	W
Comrade for one good deed of yours	B
Your history shall not help to fill	W
The mouths of many brainless boors	B
It may be death absolves or cures	B
The sin of life 'Twere hazardous	B
To assert so If the sin endures	B
Say only God who has judged him thus	B
Be merciful to him and us	B

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