The counsel for the prisoners they nobly did defend,
And tried to prove their innocence, this point they did contend.
After the trial, Mrs Manning said,
I do protest I’m innocent and been unfairly tried,
Though you’ve pronounced me guilty, and doom’d me to be hung,
More like a dog than Christian, to a being thus undone.
With rage and desperation the keepers by them stood,
And to their gloomy prison they quickly were removed,
The coolness and courage which they before displayed,
Had now forsook them for a time, and they look’d quite dismay’d.