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THE RECORD.


He sleeps, his head upon his sword,
    His soldier's cloak a shroud;
His church-yard is the open field,—
    Three times it has been plough'd:

The first time that the wheat sprung up
    'Twas black as if with blood,
The meanest beggar turn'd away
    From the unholy food.