Hood's well known poem "Eugene Oram" founded upon an actual event is a striking _illostration. Eugene Oram murdered a man and threw his body into the river, "A sluggish water, black as ink, the depth was 80 extra Next morning he visited the spot, the binek accursed pol, With wid' misgiving evel And" saw the ead in the viver, bed fuithlens pool es" dry.
Taking up the dead body he carried it into the depth of the forest and hepped leaves and bran-chat over it; bug next a mighty wind swept through the forest, and roattered the covering:—
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