Saying, “dearest mistress, who is this man?”
And, while she pressed her mistress to her heart,
A bullet pierced in a dangerous part.
James Bloomfield Rush was then to prison sent,
Miss Sandford against him a witness went,
She was well avenged—for on the gallows high,
The base seducer was condemned to die!
The Judge soon told him that his race was run,—
That he must die for murderous deeds he’d done,
To use the time that yet on earth was given,