HATRED and vengeance,--my eternal portion Scarce can endure delay of execution,-- Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in a moment. Damned below Judas; more abhorred than he was, Who for a few pence sold his holy Master! Twice-betrayed Jesus me, the last delinquent, Deems the profanest. Man disavows, and Deity disowns me, Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; Therefore, Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me. Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers; Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, I'm called, if vanquished! to receive a sentence Worse than Abiram's. Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong; I, fed with judgment, in a fleshly tomb, am Buried above ground. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CREMATION OF SAM MCGEE by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 21. 'TIS CONSTANCY THAT GAINS THE PRIZE by PHILIP AYRES EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 39. WON BY SUBTILTY by PHILIP AYRES LILIES: 12. 'YET I ENDURE.' by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) EMPORIUM VERSUS NEW YORK, 1854 by JACOB BIGELOW |