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 "title": "XXVIII",
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 "container": "On Stone Some Ante-Mortem Epitaphs",
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  "venue": "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume V (1911)",
  "note": "Taken from Volume V of the Neale collected edition (copyright 1911). That is the printing this text comes from, not the poem's first appearance: the volume's own preface states that most of its verses are republished from newspapers and periodicals of the Pacific Coast, and which of them printed this poem first has not been established here.",
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    "text": "This grave holds Barnes in all his glory⁠—",
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    "text": "Master he of oratOry.",
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    "text": "When he died the people, weeping",
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    "text": "(For they thought him only sleeping)",
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    "text": "Cried: “Although he now is quiet",
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    "text": "And his tongue is not a riot,",
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    "text": "Soon, the spell that binds him breaking,",
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    "text": "Then, alas, he’ll rise and speak",
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