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"To-tschin-shu is condemned to death. / How can he drink tea with the Executioner? " / Japanese Proverb.
The eldest son bestrides him, / And the pretty daughter rides him, / And I meet him oft o' mornings on the Course; / And there kindles in my bosom / An emotion chill and gruesome / As I canter past the Undertaker's Horse.