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Title: The Convict's Farewell
with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial

Author: James Parkerson

Release Date: August 25, 2010 [eBook #33533]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***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.

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THE CONVICT'S
Farewell:

WITH ADVICE
TO
CRIMINALS,
BEFORE
AND
AFTER TRIAL.

* * * * *

_IN VERSE_.

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BY J. PARKERSON, JUN.

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_PRICE THREE-PENCE_.

* * * * *

NORWICH:
PRINTED BY R. WALKER, NEAR THE DUKE'S PALACE.

THE CONVICT'S FAREWELL, &c.

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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 I hear them say,
He's gone from us, he's hurried far away.
Nightly I've view'd them in my flurri'd dreams,
Seen their wet eyes and heard their dreadful screams;
Methought my wife came to my lonely cell,
To say adieu, to bid a long farewell;
Soon I a