It was so rare a piece of fun To see the swelter'd cattle run

Some of the exonerees did meet with partial success during their appeals and postconviction process, but this success was usually short-lived.

It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an overachiever, to use the philistine label which conveys the contemporary disdain for precocity and intellectual ardor.

But she went to her car and came back with a purple pharmacist's refill bottle of promethazine-codeine cough syrup. She called it Texas tea.