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- Respite
- n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
- Altgeld upon his incandescent bed Lay, an attendant demon at his head.
- “O cruel cook, pray grant me some relief — Some respite from the roast, however brief.”
- “Remember how on earth I pardoned all Your friends in Illinois when held in thrall.”
- “Unhappy soul! for that alone you squirm O’er fire unquenched, a never-dying worm.
- “Yet, for I pity your uneasy state, Your doom I’ll mollify and pains abate.
- “Naught, for a season, shall your comfort mar, Not even the memory of who you are.”
- Throughout eternal space dread silence fell; Heaven trembled as Compassion entered Hell.
- “As long, sweet demon, let my respite be As, governing down here, I’d respite thee.”
- “As long, poor soul, as any of the pack You thrust from jail consumed in getting back.”
- A genial chill affected Altgeld’s hide While they were turning him on t’other side.
- Joel Spate Woop
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