| | | Hatred and vengeance! my eternal portion, |
| | | Scarce can endure delay of execution, |
| | | Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my |
| | | Soul in a moment. |
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| 5 | | Damn'd below Judas: more abhorr'd than he was, |
| | | Who for a few pence sold his holy Master. |
| | | Twice betray'd Jesus me, the last delinquent, |
| | | Deems the profanest. |
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| | | Man disavows, and Deity disowns me. |
| 10 | | Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; |
| | | Therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all |
| | | Bolted against me. |
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| | | Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers; |
| | | Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors; |
| 15 | | I'm call'd, if vanquish'd, to receive a sentence |
| | | Worse than Abiram's. |
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| | | Him, the vindictive rod of angry justice |
| | | Sent quick, and howling to the centre headlong; |
| | | I, fed with judgments, in a fleshly tomb, am |
| 20 | | Buried above ground. |
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First published 1816.
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