Or o’er its faults one briny tear let drop;
Here they alike on dusty shelf repose,
To add fresh lumber to the newsman’s shop.
The Morning Post. 1803.
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Epitaph on a Noted Highwayman.
Here, high suspended on a gibbet hangs
A youth to ev’ry crime and plunder prone;
’Till caught at length, by law’s resistless fangs,
The gaping gallows seiz’d him as its own.