For one so friendless and so poor to look;

At last a stranger, in a pedler's shed,

Beheld him hanging—he had long been dead.

He left a paper, penn'd at sundry times,

Intitled thus—"My Groanings and my Crimes!"

"I was a christian man, and none could lay

Aught to my charge; I walk'd the narrow way:

All then was simple faith, serene and pure,

My hope was steadfast and my prospects sure;

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