List of Trials of Peers in The House of Lords

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“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
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“Lovers, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And he a winter breeze.”
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“O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)