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I read my sentence steadily, / Reviewed it with my eyes, / To see that I made no mistake / In its extremest clause, --
The date, and manner of the shame; / And then the pious form / That "God have mercy" on the soul / The jury voted him.
I made my soul familiar / With her extremity, / That at the last it should not be / A novel agony,
But she and Death, acquainted, / Meet tranquilly as friends, / Salute and pass without a hint -- / And there the matter ends.