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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle,net.poems
Subject: Re: and the Gloom of the Grave
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Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 15:18:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  2 15:18:45 1986
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Yes, the fourth stanza is sometimes sung publicly, but hardly ever the
second and third.  Who wants to hear lines like "Their blood hath
washed out their foul footsteps' pollution"?  If you ask me, the whole
poem is a hack.

By the way, I always thought "The Gloom of the Grave" referred to the
Puritans. ...
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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