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How does it happen, tell me, / That I who was most erudite of lawyers, / Who knew Blackstone and Coke / Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech / The courthouse ever heard, and wrote / A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese --
How does it happen, tell me, / That I lie here unmarked, forgotten, / While Chase Henry, the town drunkard, / Has a marble block, topped by an urn / Wherein Nature, in a mood ironical, / Has sown a flowering weed?