They stripped him of his canvas clothes, And gave him to the flies; They mocked the swollen purple throat And the stark and staring eyes: And with laughter loud they heaped the shroud In which their convict lies.
I've just read almost the whole squiggly earworming poem looking for that!
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Date: 2010-01-12 06:04 pm (UTC)And gave him to the flies;
They mocked the swollen purple throat
And the stark and staring eyes:
And with laughter loud they heaped the shroud
In which their convict lies.
I've just read almost the whole squiggly earworming poem looking for that!