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We sat together at one summer's end,That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,And you and I, and talked of poetry.I said, "A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.Better go down upon your marrow-bonesAnd scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stonesLike an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;For to articulate sweet sounds togetherIs to work harder than all these, and yetBe thought an idler by the noisy setOf bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymenThe martyrs call the world."
All "seven martyrs," as they've been lionized, stayed Republicans and campaigned for Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.
News column describes the attractions of cults, and compares the Heaven's Gate suicides to early Christian martyrs.
Now the practice has its own martyrs: a "triple"--a woman and her two men--whose child was taken away because of their unusual living arrangement.
The massacre aided the Revolutionary cause by creating its first martyrs and the propagandists, including Paul Revere, who made an engraving of the event, used it to their advantage.