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Tom Paine

...begone;
I have no doubt his eyes were wet
 To scan that skeleton.
That grinning skull from which in season
 Emerged the Age of Reason.

Then Cobbet in his turn lay dead,
 And auctioneering tones
Over his chattels rudely said:
 'Who wants them bloody bones?'
None did, so they were scattered far
 And God knows where they are.

A friend of Franklin and of Pitt
 He lived a stormy span;
The flame of liberty he lit
 And rang the Rights of Man.
Yet pilgrims from Vermont and Maine
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by Service, Robert William

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