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  • Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore ishewearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

    - A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
    'Additional Poems', no.18, in Collected Poems (1939).

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