“The carny had a horse, all skin and bone,
A bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow",
Now it is buried in a shallow grave,
In the then parched meadow.”
Song lyrics, Your Funeral… My Trial (1986), The Carny
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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
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Te propter nullos tellus tua postulat imbres,
arida nec pluvio supplicat herba Iovi.
Bk. 1, no. 7, line 25.
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