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But Tom’s no more⁠—and so no more of Tom.

Heroes must die; and by God’s blessing ’tis

Not long before the most of them go home.

Hail! Thamis, hail! Upon thy verge it is

That Juan’s chariot, rolling like a drum

In thunder, holds the way it can’t well miss,

Through Kennington and all the other “tons,”

Which make us wish ourselves in town at once;⁠—