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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer Source type: newspaper Document type: poem Document title: “The Pity of It” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Cleveland, Ohio Date of publication: 8 September 1901 Volume number: 60 Issue number: 251 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 6 |
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| “The Pity of It.” Cleveland Plain Dealer 8 Sept. 1901 v60n251: part 1, p. 6. |
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| McKinley assassination (poetry). |
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The Pity of It
The Nation’s heart reeled ’neath the blow
That laid the gentle Chieftain low.From clearest skies disaster fell
On him whom all men loved so well.No hate for tyrants nerved the deed;
No thought that thus a land is freed.Up rose in rage the dastard hand—
And grief sits heavy on the land.