tragic fragment

all devil as i am—a damned wretch,

a hardened, stubborn, unrepenting viin,

still my heart melts at human wretchedness;

and with sincere but unavailing sighs

i view the helpless children of distress:

with tears indignant i behold the oppressor

rejoicing in the honest man's destruction,

whose unsubmitting heart was all his crime.—

ev'n you, ye hapless crew! i pity you;

ye, whom the seeming good think sin to pity;