"... Now when they had tidied all the room, They led the women from the well-built hall Between the round-house and th…"

"And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself."

"We have been rinsed and laundered by the rain, And by the sunlight dried and blackened too. Magpie and crow have pluc…"

"And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? …"

"O little did my mother think When first she cradled me, That I would turn a rovin’ boy And die on the gallows tree."

"He does not die a death of shame On a day of dark disgrace, Nor have a noose about his neck, Nor a cloth upon his fac…"

"They hanged him as a beast is hanged: They did not even toll A requiem that might have brought Rest to his startled s…"

"What, still alive at twenty-two, A clean, upstanding chap like you? Sure, if your throat ’tis hard to slit, Slit your…"

"Bill Stein: Howdy, folks, howdy. This is your old friend, Bill Stein, bringing you a jerk-by-jerk description of the …"

"Quick? I thought of the Austrian executioners who had hung on to the legs of their strangling prisoner to finish the …"