Death only from the bench could ever start
The sluggish load of his immortal part.
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For those this mausoleum is erected
Who Stanford to the Upper House elected.
Their luck is less or their promotion slower,
For, dead, they were elected to the Lower.
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Rash mortal! stay thy feet and look around-
This vacant tomb as yet is holy ground;
But soon, alas! Jim Fair will occupy
These premises-then, holiness, good-bye!
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George Perry here lies stiff and stark,
With stone at foot and stone at head.
His heart was dark, his mind was dark-
‘Ignorant ass!’ the people said.
Not ignorant but skilled, alas,
In all the secrets of his trade:
He knew more ways to be an ass
Than any ass that ever brayed.