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A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet / Is some poor feller's funeral a-joggin' 'long the street: / The slow hearse and the hosses -- slow enough, to say at least, / Fer to even tax the patience of gentleman deceased!
The low scrunch of the gravel -- and the slow grind of the wheels -- , / The slow, slow go of ev'ry woe 'at ev'rybody feels!