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Rh The day when Charmus ran with five In Arcady, as I'm alive, He came in seventh.—"Five and one Make seven, you say? It can't be done."— Well, if you think it needs a note, A friend in a fur overcoat Ran with him, crying all the while, "You'll beat 'em, Charmus, by a mile!" And so he came in seventh. Therefore, good Zoilus, you see The thing is plain as plain can be; And with four more for company, He would have been eleventh.

The gloom of death is on the raven's wing, The song of death is in the raven's cries: But when Demophilus begins to sing, The raven dies.