Avenging the Maine, a drunken A.B., and other poems / by James Ephraim McGirt [electronic text]

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McGirt, James E. (James Ephraim)

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Philadelphia, Penn.: George F. Lasher

1901

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"Avenging the Maine, a drunken A.B., and other poems / by James Ephraim McGirt [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9521.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2025.

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 ODE TO CONSCIENCE.   Oh; gently conscience thou scourgest well! Would'st thou give ease if I should  tell, The secret crime o'er which I weep, Ev'en though unknown, denies me sleep? Come law, and punish, let me rest, Pray ease the guilty, aching breast; The innocent, pray, set him free, And take the convict, I am he; No punishment can law import, Equal the guilty, aching heart.    