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IN RESPECTFUL MEMORY OF MR. YARKER: MENTEM MORTALIA TANGUNT by JOHN CLOSE

First Line: AND HAVE WE LOST ANOTHER FRIEND?
Last Line: HARK TO THE TOLLING BELL!
Subject(s): DEATH; FRIENDSHIP; MEMORY; DEAD, THE;

AND have we lost another friend?
How sad the news to tell!
Alas! poor Mr. Yarker's gone—
Hark to the tolling bell!
Alas! how many how drop of—
What numbers are unwell;
Another mortal borne away—
Hark to the tolling bell!



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