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Elenor Murray daughter of Henry Murray	A
The druggist at LeRoy a village near	B
The shadow of Starved Rock this Elenor	B
But recently returned from France a heart	C
Who gave her service in the world at war	B
Was found along the river's shore a mile	D
Above Starved Rock on August th the day	E
Year LaSalle set sail	F
For Michilmackinac to reach Green Bay	E
In the Griffin in the winter snow and sleet	G
Reaching Lone Cliff Starved Rock its later name	H
Also La Vantum village of the tribe	I
Called Illini	J
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This may be taken to speak	K
The symbol of her life and fate For first	L
This Elenor Murray comes into this life	M
And lives her youth where the Rock's shadow falls	N
As if to say her life should starve and lie	O
Beneath a shadow wandering in the world	P
As Cavalier LaSalle did born at Rouen	J
Shot down on Trinity River Texas She	A
Searches for life and conquest of herself	Q
With the same sleepless spirit of LaSalle	R
And comes back to the shadow of the Rock	S
And dies beneath its shadow Cause of death	T
Was she like Sieur LaSalle shot down or choked	U
Struck poisoned Let the coroner decide	V
Who hearing of the matter takes the body	A
And brings it to LeRoy is taking proofs	W
Lets doctors cut the body probe and peer	B
To find the cause of death	T
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And so this morning	X
Of August th as a hunter walks	Y
Looking for rabbits maybe aimless hunting	X
Over the meadow where the Illini's	Y
La Vantum stood two hundred years before	B
Gun over arm in readiness for game	H
Sees some two hundred paces to the south	Z
Bright colors red and blue thinks off the bat	A2
A human body lies there hurries on	J
And finds the girl's dead body hatless head	B2
The hat some paces off as if she fell	C2
In such way that the hat dashed off Her arms	Y
Lying outstretched the body half on side	V
The face upturned to heaven open eyes	Y
That might have seen Starved Rock until the eyes	Y
Sank down in darkness where no image comes	Y
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This hunter knew the body bent and looked	D2
Gave forth a gasp of horror leaned and touched	E2
The cold hand of the dead saw in her pocket	F2
Sticking above the pocket's edge a banner	B
And took it forth saw it was Joan of Arc	G2
In helmet and cuirass kneeling in prayer	B
And in the banner a paper with these words	Y
To be brave and not to flinch And standing there	B
This hunter knew that Elenor Murray came	H
Some days before from France was visiting	X
An aunt named Irma Leese beyond LeRoy	B
What was she doing by the river's shore	B
He saw no mark upon her and no blood	H2
No pistol by her nothing disarranged	H2
Of hair or clothing showing struggle nothing	X
To indicate the death she met Who saw her	B
Before or when she died How long had death	T
Been on her eyes Some hours or over night	H2
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The hunter touched her hand already stiff	I2
And saw the dew upon her hair and brow	B
And a blue deadness in her eyes like pebbles	Y
The lips were black and bottle flies had come	J2
To feed upon her tongue 'Tis ten o'clock	S
The coolness of the August night unchanged	H2
By this spent sun of August And the moon	J
Lies dead and wasted there beyond Starved Rock	S
The moon was beautiful last night To walk	K2
Beside the river under the August moon	J
Took Elenor Murray's fancy as he thinks	Y
Then thinking of the aunt of Elenor Murray	A
Who should be notified the hunter runs	Y
To tell the aunt but there's the coroner	B
Is there not law the coroner should know	J
Should not the body lie as it was found	H2
Until the coroner takes charge of it	H2
Should not he stand on guard And so he runs	Y
And from a farmer's house by telephone	J
Sends word to Coroner Merival Then returns	Y
And guards the body	A
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Here is riffle first	H2
The coroner sat with his traveling bags	Y
Was closing up his desk had planned a trip	L2
With boon companions they were with him there	B
The auto waited at the door to take them	M2
To catch the train for northern Michigan	J
He closed the desk and they arose to go	J
Just then the telephone began to ring	X
The hunter at the other end was talking	X
And told of Elenor Murray Merival	C2
Turned to his friends and said The jig is up	N2
Here is an inquest and of moment too	H2
I cannot go but you jump in the car	B
And go you'll catch the train if you speed up	N2
They begged him to permit his deputy	A
To hold the inquest Merival said no	J
And waived them off They left He got a car	B
And hurried to the place where Eleanor lay	C2
Now who was Merival the Coroner	B
For we shall know of Elenor through him	O2
And know her better knowing Merival	C2

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