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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.