Chapter 38 GATHERING FOR THE EXECUTION.

He was a man of simple heart,

Patient and meek; the Christian part

Came to his soul as came the air

That heaved his bosom; hope, despair,

Were chastened by a holy faith!

Meek in his life he feared not death.

The day of execution arrived, and every hearth-stone in the great metropolis was shadowed by a knowledge that at an hour to

            
            

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