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12.
What
Made you hang those witches
Weigh testimony and not
What did your dreams say
Or were they the devil’s work?
I am remembering that statue
Of my ancestor, Roger Conant,
And the graves of my forebears
Hathorne and White.
What could they have made
Of the place they led to?
What tyrant king could do worse?