If only they had believed?
So many now would not be bereaved?
Their leader had gladly deceived?
Such deceptions he had weaved?
The truth - Jack Gruet had perceived!
Instead, only the public's ire he received!
When the written evidence he retrieved,
More than just a few were peeved!
Threats and more at him were heaved!
How could he question the leader's image heroicly conceived?
Now, from his own regrets Jack Gruet is unrelieved!
He too is more than aggrieved!
Disaster and sorrows avoided - if only, IN Jack Gruet, they had believed!

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