Today's Stichomancy for Robert E. Lee

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Set faith in me in vain; And whatever man you have slaughtered, Of whatever name or line, By my sword and yonder mountain, I make your quarrel mine. (1) I bid you in to my fireside, I share with you house and hall; It stands upon my honour To see you safe from all."

It fell in the time of midnight, When the fox barked in the den

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