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Alas! as we listened to that most elaborate eulogy, shaped by study and penetrated by feeling, how little did we think that it was so soon to be echoed back from his own tomb!
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Sumner reflects on the poignant irony of a eulogy delivered shortly before the speaker's own death.
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