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Now we know it's you

And all the details of your grizzly death.

We know the hunchback

Was no spiteful Lancastrian lie

And writers in your reign

Speak of your goodness and humanity

We know the change you made

To save the innocent from unjust laws.

But did you dispose

Of two small boys to keep yourself a king?

Your effigy is silent as their graves.

Brian Hick February 2013 (after the discovery  of the body of Richard 111)

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