...death, Have burst their cerements: Why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again....complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. . . . And when the Ghost answers him and says: "I am thy father's spirit, / Doom'd for a certain term...

...not been corrected. APPENDIX A The Original Ku-K/ux Prescript of Reconstruction * PRESCRIPT OF THE What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again,...moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? An' now auld Cloots,...

...hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements, why the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee...mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous and we fools of nature So horridly to...

...Have burst their ceremonies; why thy sepulchre, In which we saw thee quietly interred, 25 Hath burst his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again....mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature 30 So horridly...

...hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements, why the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee...mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous and we fools of nature So horridly to...

...hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee...moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? Say, why is this?...

...hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements, why the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee...mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous and we fools of nature So horridly to...

...church. Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly interred, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again....mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to...

...universalized and rationalized in a lucid and transparent diction. Think of Hamlet's address to the Ghost: What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in...moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? O.iv, 51) Cain's...

...prescript of the original KKK formed in Tennessee bears the following verses from Hamlet, Act 1, scene 4: What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again,...moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? (JC Lester and...