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ON THE PRIVILEGE OF BURIAL.
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"Mary in triumph borne to deck
A Hebrew household! Pictured where
No one was used to bend the neck
In praise or bow the knee in prayer!
Borne to that domicile by whom?
The son of the High Priest! Through what?
An insult done his mother's tomb!
Saul changed to Paul—the case came pat!

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"'Stay, dog-Jew . . gentle sir, that is!
Resolve me! Can it be, she crowns,—
Mary, by miracle,—Oh bliss!
My prevent to your burial-ground?