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HIS is a brightsome blaze you've lit, good friend, to-night!" "—Aye, it has been the bleakest spring I have felt for years, And nought compares with cloven logs to keep alight: I buy them bargain-cheap of the executioners, As I dwell near; and they wanted the crosses out of sight By Passover, not to affront the eyes of visitors.

"Yes, they're from the crucifixions last week-ending At Kranion. We can sometimes use the poles again,