William Cowper - Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity

William Cowper - Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity

Hatred and vengence--my eternal portion br Scarce can endure delay of execution-- br Wait with impatient readiness to seize my br Soul in a moment. br br Damned below Judas; more abhorred than he was, br Who for a few pence sold his holy Master! br Twice betrayed, Jesus me, the last delinquent, br Deems the profanest. br br Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: br Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; br Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all br Bolted against me. br br Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers; br Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, br I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence br Worse than Abiram's. br br Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice br Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong; br I, fed with judgment, in a fleshy tomb am br Buried above ground.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-10

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