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The brain so rudely shattered has its own voice, and the tongue so suddenly silenced in death speaks now with more than living eloquence.
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Sumner reflects on the enduring power of a person's voice even after death.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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