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I cannot tell you Coroner the cause	A
Of death of Elenor Murray not until	B
My chemical analysis is finished	C
Here is the woman's heart sealed in this jar	D
I weighed it weight nine ounces if she had	E
A hemolysis cannot tell you now	F
What caused the hemolysis Since you say	G
She took no castor oil that you can learn	H
From Irma Leese or any witness still	B
A chemical analysis may show	I
The presence of ricin and that she took	J
A dose of oil not pure Her throat betrayed	K
Slight inflammation but in brief I wait	L
My chemical analysis	M
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Let's exclude	N
The things we know and narrow down the facts	O
She lay there by the river death had come	P
Some twenty hours before No stick or stone	Q
No weapon near her bottle poison box	R
No bruise upon her in her mouth no dust	S
No foreign bodies in her nostrils neck	T
Without a mark no punctures cuts or scars	U
Upon her anywhere no water in lungs	V
No mud sand straws or weeds in hands the nails	W
Clean as if freshly manicured	X
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Again	Y
No evidence of rape I first examined	Z
The genitals in situ found them sound	A2
The girl had lived was not a virgin still	B
Had temperately indulged and not at all	B2
In recent months no evidence at all	B2
Of conjugation willingly or not	C2
The day of death But still I lifted out	D2
The ovaries fallopian tubes and uterus	M
The vagina and vulvae Opened up	E2
The mammals found no milk No pregnancy	F2
Existed sealed these organs up to test	G2
For poison later as we doctors know	I
Sometimes a poison's introduced per vaginam	P
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I sealed the brain up too shall make a test	G2
Of blood and serum for urea death	H2
Comes suddenly from that you find no lesion	I2
Must take a piece of brain and cut it up	E2
Pour boiling water on it break the brain	J2
To finer pieces pour the water off	K2
Digest the piece of brain in other water	L2
Repeat four times the solutions mix together	L2
Dry in an oven treat with ether at last	M2
The residue put on a slide of glass	N2
With nitric acid let it stand awhile	O2
Then take your microscope if there's urea	P2
You'll see the crystals very beautiful	Q2
A cobra's beautiful but scarce can kill	B
As quick as these	R2
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Likewise I have sealed up	E2
The stomach liver kidneys spleen intestines	S2
So many poisons have no microscopic	T2
Appearance that convinces opium	P
Hyoscyamus belladonna fool us	M
But as the stomach had no inflammation	I2
It was not chloral ether took her off	K2
Which we can smell to boot But I can find	U2
Strychnia if it killed her though you know	I
That case in England sixty years ago	I
Where the analysis did not disclose	V2
Strychnia though they hung a man for giving	W2
That poison to a fellow	I
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To recur	L2
I'm down to this Perhaps a hemolysis	V2
But what produced it If I find no ricin	I
I turn to streptococcus deadly snake	X2
Or shall I call him tiger For I think	Y2
The microscopic world of living things	V2
Is just a little jungle filled with tigers	V2
Snakes lions what you will with teeth and claws	V2
The perfect miniatures of these monstrous foes	V2
Sweet words come from the lips and tender hands	V2
Like Elenor Murray's minister nor know	I
The jungle has been roused in throat or lungs	V2
And shapes venene begin to crawl and eat	Z2
The ruddy apples of the blood eject	A3
Their triple venomous excreta in	I
The channels of the body	F2
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There's the heart	B3
Which may be weakened by a streptococcus	V2
But if she had a syncope and fell	C3
She must have bruised her body or her head	D3
And if she had a syncope was held up	E2
Who held her up That might have cost her life	E3
To be held up in syncope You know	I
You lay a person down in syncope	F2
And oftentimes the heart resumes its beat	Z2
Perhaps she was held up until she died	F3
Then laid there by the river so no bruise	V2
So many theories come to me But again	I
I say to you look for a man Run down	I
All clues of Gregory Wenner He is dead	D3
Loss of a building drives to suicide	F3
The papers say but still it may be true	G3
He was with Elenor Murray when she died	F3
Pushed her we'll say or struck her in a way	G
To leave no mark a tap upon the heart	B3
That shocked the muscles more or less obscure	H3
That bind the auricles and ventricles	V2
And killed her Then he flies away in fear	I3
Aghast at what he does and kills himself	J3
Look for a man I say It must be true	G3
She went so secretly to walk that morning	W2
To meet a man why would she walk alone	I
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So while you hunt the man I'll look for ricin	I
And with my chemicals end up the search	K3
I never saw a heart more beautiful	Q2
Just look at it We doctors all agreed	L3
This Elenor Murray might have lived to ninety	F2
Except for jungles poison sudden shock	M3
I take my bottle with the heart of Elenor	G3
And go about my way It beat in France	V2
It beat for France and for America	P2
But what is truer somewhere was a man	I
For whom it beat	Z2
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When Irma Leese the Aunt of Elenor Murray	G3
Appeared before the coroner she told	N3
Of Elenor Murray's visit of the morning	W2
She left to walk was never seen again	I
And brought the coroner some letters sent	O3
By Elenor from France What follows now	I
Is what the coroner or the jury heard	X
From Irma Leese from letters drawn beside	F3
The riffle that the death of Elenor Murray	G3
Sent round the life of Irma Leese which spread	D3
To Tokio and touched a man the son	I
Of Irma Leese's sister dead Corinne	I
The mother of this man in Tokio	I

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