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Title: The Convict's Farewell
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Author: James Parkerson
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONVICT'S FAREWELL***
Transcribed from the early 1800’s edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.
THE CONVICT’S
Farewell:
WITH ADVICE
to
CRIMINALS,
BEFORE
and
AFTER TRIAL.
in verse.
BY J. PARKERSON, JUN.
PRICE THREE-PENCE.
NORWICH:
printed by r. walker, near the duke’s palace.
THE CONVICT’S FAREWELL, &c.
Farewell ye partner of my woes, farewell!
The finest language could but faintly tell,
What I now feel in writing this adieu,
What you must suffer when I’m far from you.
There was a time when happiness my lot,
I liv’d serenely in my little cot;
No wicked thoughts did there disturb my rest,
My children round me, by a father prest;
No father now, methinks
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