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Who was to blame in that old time / Of the unnoticed groan, / When prisoners without proof of crime / Rotted in dungeons wet with slime, / And died unknown?
When torture was a common thing, / When fire could speak, / When the flayed wretch hung quivering, / And rack-strained tendons, string by string, / Snapped with a shriek?