ALL you that must take a leap in the Dark,

Pity the Fate of Lawson and Clark;

Cheated by Hope, by Mercy amus'd,

Betray'd by the sinful ways we us'd:

Cropp'd in our Prime of Strength and Youth,

Who can but weep at so sad a Truth;

Cropp'd in our Prime, &c.

Once we thought 'twould never be Night,

But now alass 'twill never be light;