He is doomed to suffer as I relate

On the very tree where Rush met his fate

In health, in vigour, in youth and bloom,

The murderer Lingley must meet his doom.

In the morning early at four o’clock

He fired a sad and dreadful shot

Which caused his uncle’s fatal death wound

Where he fell bleeding upon the ground.

A kind good uncle as may be seen

To his wicked nephew he had been;