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Ah, 'tis mournful to consider what remorses will be thronging,     With a consciousness of having been so ghastly indiscreet,   When by accident untoward two ex-gentlemen belonging     To the opposite political denominations meet!

From Shapes of Clay by Bierce, Ambrose