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In Memoriam C. T. W., Sometime Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards, Obiit H. M. Prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7, 1896
He did not wear his scarlet coat, / For blood and wine are red, / And blood and wine were on his hands / When they found him with the dead, / The poor dead woman whom he loved, / And murdered in her bed.