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Rh GLAVE

OF HENRY GEORGE

WHO DIED FIGHTING AGAINST POLITICAL TYRANNY AND CORRUPTION

SCORN

are the men that good men most despise?

Not they who, ill begot and spawned in shame,

Riot and rob, or rot before men's eyes,—

Who basely live, and dying leave no name.

These are the piteous refuse of mankind,

Fatal the ascendant star when they were born,