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The Lay of the Common Scoundrel [from 'Vanity Fair' Oct. 6]

Shepherd, N. G. "The Lay of the Common Scoundrel [from 'Vanity Fair' Oct. 6]." New-York Saturday Press. 16 Oct. 1860: 4.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

Poem chronicling the life of a politician. He steals food, drugs a man and takes his watch, and later kills a man as he rises through the social order.

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