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Crowded w # b , ne& * n& rim *— with the excess Of vice , an&vfrtu ** , Herae * Iww bes Who sit ou heavenly summita now ? and walk In the free fields of bliss- LwilLnot ask Wh&t crimes have crowded here : for
men are wont To err most strangely when they talk of crime : The rilest go unscourged ; but I have seen More valour and more truth in these black cells 7 ITiaa ever honoured majrp a mighty one
Whem miJRon slaves have worshiped ; 111 look round : And moralize , and fora moment chase The memory of wife and childrenthought * ' Too bitter for a ^ prisoner , and for one Whose prison is not hi hife father land ; The cold : watts on one ' side were
mouldered o ' er , And the < damp ^ sweat exadecL Stains of blbod Were apjdnklei am the otter : filth of years < 30 re * edi the ; floorv These was asi&kening stench , Nauseous as the pltaue % breath . Th £
bars , the bolts Seemed * made for giants ; axnf the heavy ^ eys * Were shaken , as with a malevolent joy ^ By tfce unhearted keeper * Vermm * tribes
Ijuxuriated : it wa ^ a palace them . I Imaged to myself the various minds That had . left tr ^»» qripts , on these prisoa ^ walls ; But 3 ome ha 4 been erased , ; as if rebuke If ad cried " Shame" to the conscience ; some were left
Broken , or finiQhaL tremblingly . Remwse , Oi fear , or levity , ^ iad checked the hand ; Yet like Belshazzar ' s silent warping , they
Spoke loud as thunder . One had written there , € i Take ye my lffe who took my hope nway . " Anothen told his history .: * f I : was bdrn la Brabant and was happy : I had fiUedi
A soldier ' s place with honour , but I fledU Deluded by a false one ' s charms , and built
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My heavy pOe oijmpwtN t OfU I turned Att eat of 4 $ « J ( g $ 894 $ tibuw ^^ tmth , And whelm ^ tii ^ ln . jny qw ^ tiuasi ol > atimate wftL Tby toward peoitence is warthleas now . O midejc ^ hle mortal 1 bow ^ hy head , Suffer and sink / The fine was blendedtf ^ re
Wfth otEer exdamations : *< What I is 'this A fit abode for virtue ? linked to crime , Married to inf 5 amy Great Heaven ! I swear V swear the charge is false I" and so it was :
Twas but the agony of a youthful soul Dreading contamuiation . One had drawn Rude * bough 3 of intertwining olive . One H « d sketched a drooping ash , bent o ' er a stream , And ; hang gold weights upon its tf
branches : Men Are bowed by circumstance . ' ' Twas eloquent : I felt it , and I looked again ; 1 saw There , was an altar hid behind the tree ,, Otf which a fire was burning , Twas a dream l
Of the pure days of youth . * ' M ^ an is trained * To perfect wi $ dam ? but by perfect woe—Thou njqislk be more unfortuiia ^ e ! ' Pow-aft Have . 1 , with lbtening ear and husy sense , Waited upqayiour moralkeri ! Genie , Cl ^ ekai proud one I Comet and 6 hb w
at page In all-thy ! catalogue , 6 o rieh . m lore , As this cold i wall . There : were two tremblihgvlines From one just hurrying to the scaffold ; "I N 6 w end my collide and perish . It wercf'SM ^ ir t
To die in England ! " Carved upon thie floor , i There were most strange awd hieroglyphic forms ,
Which sjpoke of British captains—British crews , Captured and there confined . . Some htunorous jests Were blended—had my mind beeu tuned tb mirth .
I was not mournful—I could not be gay . I heaved no sigh * - *! could awake no smile : Wife , children ^ -peii « ap 8 . 1 * 11 tnuse no more . Alaal / am a prisoner .
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| M Poetry . —Mr . Bw * i * & > s Lkm ^ wnitteiL in , the Prison Calais .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/40/
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