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Boruck and Waterman upon their grills	A
In Hades lay with many a sigh and groan	B
Hotly disputing for each swore his own	B
Were clearly keener than the other's ills	A
And truly each had much to boast of bone	B
And sinew muscle tallow nerve and skin	C
Blood in the vein and marrow in the shin	C
Teeth eyes and other organs for the soul	D
Has all of these and even a wagging chin	C
Blazing and coruscating like a coal	D
For Lower Sacramento you remember	E
Has trying weather even in mid December	E
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Now this occurred in the far future All	F
Mankind had been a million ages dead	G
And each to her reward above had sped	G
Each to his punishment below I call	F
That quite a just arrangement As I said	G
Boruck and Waterman in warmest pain	H
Crackled and sizzed with all their might and main	H
For when on earth they'd freed a scurvy host	I
Of crooks from the State prison who again	J
Had robbed and ravaged the Pacific Coast	I
And such the felon's predatory nature	E
Even got themselves into the Legislature	E
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So Waterman and Boruck lay and roared	K
In Hades It is true all other males	L
Felt the like flames and uttered equal wails	L
But did not suffer them whereas they bored	K
Each one the other But indeed my tale's	L
Not getting on at all They lay and browned	M
Till Boruck who long since his teeth had ground	M
Away and spoke Gum Arabic and made	N
Stump speeches even in praying looked around	M
And said to Bob's incinerated shade	N
'Your Excellency this is mighty hard on	O
The inventors of the unpardonable pardon '	-
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The other soul his right hand all aflame	P
For 'twas with that he'd chiefly sinned although	Q
His tongue too like a wick was working woe	Q
To the reserve of tallow in his frame	P
Said with a sputtering uncertain flow	Q
And with a gesture like a shaken torch	R
'Yes but I'm sure we'll not much longer scorch	R
Although this climate is not good for Hope	S
Whose joyous wing 'twould singe I think the porch	R
Of Hell we'll quit with a pacific slope	S
Last century I signified repentance	L
And asked for commutation of our sentence '	-
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Even as he spoke the form of Satan loomed	T
In sight all crimson with reflections's fire	E
Like some tall tower or cathedral spire	U
Touched by the dawn while all the earth is gloomed	T
In mists and shadows of the night time 'Sire '	-
Said Waterman his agitable wick	V
Still sputtering 'what calls you back so quick	V
It scarcely was a century ago	Q
You left us ' 'I have come to bring ' said Nick	V
'St Peter's answer he is never slow	Q
In correspondence to your application	W
For pardon pardon me for commutation	W
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'He says that he's instructed to reply	X
And he has so instructed me that sin	C
Like yours and this poor gentleman's who's in	C
For bad advice to you comes rather high	X
But since apparently you both begin	C
To feel some pious promptings to the right	T
And fain would turn your faces to the light	T
Eternity seems all too long a term	Y
So 'tis commuted to one half I'm quite	T
Prepared when that expires to free the worm	Y
And quench the fire ' And civilly retreating	Z
He left them holding their protracted meeting	Z

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