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56 And her hair, all unbound, rippled over his shoulder, Dead black; and her brow, where the sweat of fierce pain Had dried, was brown-tinged as bronze is, but colder— Ah, many times colder! and as he pulled rein, He unwrapped saddle-blanket in which he had rolled her, And lo! the gay sunlight lit ominous stain, Where a murderous bullet had torn a blue vein And let out her life in a warm crimson rain.



Then gently he laid his sad load on the ground, And with sorrowing glances we gathered around. Then he turned to the west, with his eyes all aflame, With his brawny fists raised, calling witness from Heaven—