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The sullen church-bell's intermittent moan, / The dirge's melancholy monotone, / The measured march, the drooping flags, attest / A great man's progress to his place of rest.
Along broad avenues himself decreed / To serve his fellow men's disputed need -- / Past parks he raped away from robbers' thrift / And gave to poverty, wherein to lift / Its voice to curse the giver and the gift -- / Past noble structures that he reared for men / To meet in and revile him, tongue and pen, / Draws the long retinue of death to show / The fit credentials of a proper woe.