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Yes! there it hangs upon the wall And never gives a sound: The hand that trimmed its greenhide fall Is hidden underground— There, in that patch of sallee shade, Beneath that grassy mound.

I never take it from the wall: That whip belonged to him— The man I singled from them all: He was my husband, Jim. I see him now—so straight and tall, So long and lithe of limb.