And sheriffs of renown.
To get white wash'd it is their plan,
'Tis such a cleansing thing—
Then out they come with blacker hands
Than when they first went in.
P.H.H.
The following lines are copied from a seat in Greenwich Park, written in chalk; and from their style, they may be supposed to have been written by one who meditated suicide:—
Oh! deaf to nature and to heav'n's command,
Against thyself to lift the murd'ring hand,