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A famous journalist, who long / Had told the great unheaded throng / Whate'er they thought, by day or night.
Was true as Holy Writ, and right, / Was caught in -- well, on second thought, / It is enough that he was caught, / And being thrown in jail became / The fuel of a public flame.