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Let Them Have It

"Let him have it!" - bang! The blackguard ought to hang. Protests were made and hands were wrung, but, consequently, Mr. Bentley swung and swung and swung. Yet still it was proclaimed with national pride inflamed that British justice, it's grand flag unfurled, is incidentally, Mr. Bentley, the best in the whole bloody world. Now we twelve stood accused, not guilty but confused. Rough justice engaged the wheels within wheels, and coincidentally, Mr. Bentley, we now know how it feels.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2005




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