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He lay on the beach just out of the reach	A
Of waves that had cast him by	B
With fingers grim they reached for him	C
As often as they came nigh	B
The shore face brown had a surly frown	D
And glanced at the dancing sea	E
As if to say Take back the clay	F
You tossed this morning at me	E
Great fragments rude by the shipwreck strewed	G
Had found by this wreck a place	H
He had grasped them tight and hope strewn fright	G
Sat still on the bloated face	H
Battered and bruised forever abused	G
He lay by the heartless sea	E
As if Heaven's aid had never been made	G
For a villain such as he	E
The fetter's mark lay heavy and dark	I
Around the pulseless wrists	J
The hardened scar of many a war	K
Clung yet to the drooping fists	J
The soul's disgrace across that face	H
Had built an iron track	L
The half healed gash of the jailman's lash	M
Helped cover the brawny back	L
The blood that flowed in a crimson road	G
From a deep wound in his head	G
Had felt fierce pangs from the poison fangs	N
Of those who his young life fed	G
Cursed from the very beginning	O
With deeds that others had done	P
More sinned against than sinning	O
And so is every one	P
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He had never learned save what had turned	G
The steps of his life amiss	Q
He never knew a hand grasp true	R
Or the thrill of a virtuous kiss	Q
'Twas poured like a flood through his young blood	G
And poisoned every vein	S
That wrong is right that law is spite	G
And theft but honest gain	S
The seeds were grown that had long been sown	T
By the heart of a murderous sire	U
Disease and shame and blood aflame	V
With thirst for the founts of fire	U
Battered and bruised forever abused	G
He lay by the moaning sea	E
As if Heaven's aid were even afraid	G
Of a villain such as he	E
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As he lay alone like a sparrow prone	T
An angel wandered nigh	B
A look she cast over that dark past	G
And tears came to her eye	B
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She bent by the dead and tenderly said	G
Poor child you went astray	F
Your heart and mind were both born blind	G
No wonder they lost their way	F
Angels I know had fallen as low	W
With such a dismal chance	X
Your heart was ironed your soul environed	G
You were barred of all advance	X
Cursed from the very beginning	O
With deeds that others have done	P
'More sinned against than sinning'	O
And so is every one	P
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From Farmer Harrington's Calendar	U
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MAY	F
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The Lord gave Water quite a good sized start	G
Three fourths of this world's homestead for its part	G
But lawyers are not needed to convince	Y
That Water has been losing ever since	Y
The reason is not hard to understand	G
For God's most knowing creatures live on land	G
And naturally every chance they get	G
Find some new means to keep them from the wet	G
The farms their dykes have from the ocean won	P
The ground men make to build their cities on	Z
The bridge that from the river shelters me	E
The ships great travelling bridges of the sea	E
All are an effort of ambitious man	A2
To make this world as solid as he can	A2
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These thoughts to day all through my mind would run	P
While looking at a bridge they've just got done	P
Which takes a man dry shod from shore to shore	K
A matter of a good long mile or more	K
I can't describe it but I'll let the papers	B2
Who tell some truth 'mid all their fancy capers	B2
To my old scrap book give of it a taste	G
What I can't do with ink I'll do with paste	G

William Mckendree Carleton

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