CX.

That drinks and still is dry. At last they perished—

His second son was levelled by a shot;

His third was sabred; and the fourth, most cherished

Of all the five, on bayonets met his lot;

The fifth, who, by a Christian mother nourished,

Had been neglected, ill-used, and what not,

Because deformed, yet died all game and bottom,[IM]To save a Sire who blushed that he begot him.

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