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Orange Jacobs: “He has gone to the still heights where crime and pain come not.”

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He has gone to the still heights where crime and pain come not.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Jacobs poetically describes Garfield's departure to a peaceful afterlife free from suffering.

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