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First Line: The place is full of whispers - 'mark you, sirs
Last Line: They only look so infinitely tired!
Subject(s): France; Gossip; Murder; Tussaud's Wax Museum


The place is full of whispers -- 'Mark you, sirs,
This one is he who struck our moralists mute
Before the crime which proved him wholly brute!
Mark well his face!' The gaping sight-seers
Nudge one another, and no tongue but stirs
In awe-struck comment on hat, coat, and boot,
Mean smirking smile, base air of smug repute,
Worn by some prince of viler murderers!

Nay, I like most these lank-tressed doctrinaires
Who cluster round their powerless guillotine;
Aquiline, delicate, dark, their thin cheeks mired
By their own blood -- these Carriers and Heberts:
They only look so proud and so serene:
They only look so infinitely tired!





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