tragic fragment
all devil as i am—a damned wretch,
a hardened, stubborn, uing vilin,
still my heart melts at humaess;
and with si unavailing sighs
i view the helpless children of distress:
with tears indignant i behold the oppressor
rejoig in the ho man's destru,
whose unsubmitti was all his crime.—
ev'n you, ye hapless crew! i pity you;
ye, whom the seeming good think sin to pity;
ye poor, despised, abandoned vagabonds,
whom vice, as usual, has turn'd o'er to ruin.
oh! but for friends and interposing heaven,
i had been driven forth
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