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: