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    Poetical Works comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces
    Poetical Works comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces
    Poetical Works comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces
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    Poetical Works comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces

    By James Parkerson

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Poetical Works comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces

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      Poetical Works comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces - James Parkerson

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      Title: Poetical Works

      comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces

      Author: James Parkerson

      Release Date: May 6, 2010 [eBook #32276]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETICAL WORKS***

      Transcribed from the early 1800’s copy by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.  Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.

      POETICAL WORKS,

      BY J. PARKERSON, Jun.

      comprising

      Elegies, Sketches from Life,

      PATHETIC,

      and

      EXTEMPORE PIECES.

      PRICE ONE SHILLING.

      NORWICH:

      printed and sold by lane and walker,

      st. andrew’s.

      sold also by the author; crosby and co.

      w. baynes, london; gooch, yarmouth;

      and all other booksellers.

      THE BANKRUPT.

      Oft have you pray’d me, when in youth,

      Never to err from paths of truth;

      But youth to vice is much too prone,

      And mine by far too much, I own.

      Induced to riot, swear, and game,

      I thought in vice t’acquire fame;

      But found the pois’ning scenes of riot

      Soon robb’d my mind of joy and quiet.

      The usual course of rakes I ran,

      The dupe of woman and of man.

      Careless of fortune’s smile or frown,

      My desk I left t’enjoy the town,

      At folly dash’d in wisdom’s spite,

      Idled by day, revell’d by night:

      But short was that delusive scene,

      And I awoke to sorrow keen.

      Debt press’d on debt: I could not pay,

      And found that credit had its day.

      No friend to aid, what should I do?

      I made bad worse: to liquor flew:

      For when my bill-book I survey’d,

      I shrunk, as if I’d seen my shade;

      And to drive terror from my mind,

      Drank on, and care gave to the wind:

      But wine nor words can charm away

      The banker’s clerk who comes for pay.

      Payment is press’d, the cash is gone:

      Too late I cry, ‘what must be done?’

      Horrow! a docket struck appears:

      I look aghast, my wife’s in tears.

      The naked truth stares in

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