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__Transportation for Fourteen Years_.

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FROM LIFE.

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Hannah farewell I'm bound to go,
To taste the bitter draught of woe;
And as I view that starting tear,
It drives and sinks me to despair;
And now I take a last farewell,
The grief I feel no one can tell;
Two lovely children claims my care,
I'm forc'd to clothe them with despair;
As sorrow only on them press,
They are doomed to wear no other dress;
We little thought some former years,
In such a place to shed our tears;
There's only one our tears can dry,
It is the God like Deity.
And he can all our griefs expel,
Altho' I bid this last farewell;
These fetters he can quick undo,
And send me back to live with you;
May hope with all its balmy power,
Sooth Hannah in each trying hour,
Friendship I fear will from you flee,
Ere I am riding on the sea;
For the rich will close the door,
'Gainst those misfortune maketh poor;
And even in a lucky day,
The'll from the brightest object stray;
And those I've injured will descry,
Your falling state and destiny;
The G---'s are good and often kind,
To those where troubles press the mind.
I hope when I am gone from view,
Kind friendship they will show to you;
Great confidence they placed in me,
Till lured by worldly gaiety;
Suspicion on me hurl'd its dart,
Forc'd on a sudden to depart,
From Children Home and Hannah too,
Disgraced I fled from public view;
But justice has a piercing eye,
Her runners quick did me espy;
Most fairly tried tho' guilty found,
Calmly I heard the dreadful sound;
That ushered to my anxious heart,
That I from Hannah must depart;
For fourteen years ere I shall see
My troubles o'er and liberty;
To God my fate and life I trust,
What he ordains I know is just;
Whene'er a man from honour stray,
By vice he's easy led away;
To every wicked artful plan,
That soon entraps the falling man;
And what increase foreboding tears,
My little ones are come of years;
When they demand a father's aid
Methinks I hear it justly said,
I ought that thought before possess,
Ere I my wife and them distress;
Extravagance have been the cause;
That made me act against the laws;
And you that dress in rich attire,