“As Coroner, I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. And she’s not only merely dead, She’s really, most sincerely dead.” With those lines, the Coroner of Munchkinland declared the death
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five . . .” With this opening, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow