The Despatch Of The Doom.
Topics: classic
("Pendant que dans l'auberge.") [Bk. IV. xiii., Jersey, November, 1852.] While in the jolly tavern, the bandits gayly drink, Upon the haunted highway, sharp hoof-beats loudly clink? Yea; past scant-buried victims, hard-spurring sturdy steed, A mute and grisly rider is trampling grass and weed, And by the black-sealed warrant which in his grasp shines clear, I known it is the Future - God's Justicer is here!
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