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QUICK AND DEAD by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP

First Line: FROM THE TROUBLE AND STRIFE OF LIFE SET FREE
Last Line: "WOULD THAT I WERE ALIVE!"" HE SAID."
Subject(s): CORPSES; DEATH; CADAVERS; DEAD, THE;
FROM the trouble and strife of life set free,
He lay in the grave. "Thank God," thought he.
Just then two lovers murmured o'erhead ...
"Would that I were alive!" he said.



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