tragic fragment

  allvil as i am—a damned wretch,

  a haned, stubborn, unrepenting villain,

  still my heart melts at human wretchedness;

  and with sincere but unavailing sighs

  i view the helpless children of distress:

  with tears indignant i behold the oppressor

  rejoicing in the honest mansstruction,

  whose unsubmitting heart was all his crime.—

  evn you, ye hapless crew! i pity you;

  ye, whom the seeming good think sin to pity;

  ye poor,spised, abandoned vagabonds,

  whom vice, as usual, has turnd oer to ruin.

  oh! but for friends and interposing heaven,

  i had been driven forth like you forlorn,

  the mosttested, worthless wretch among you!

  o injured god! thy goodness has endowd me

  with talents passing most of mypeers,

  which i in just proportion have abused—

  as far surpassing othermon villains

  as thou in natural parts has given me more.