《Poems and Songs of Robert Burns》tragic Fragment

  tragic fragment
  allvil as i am—a damned wretch,
  a haned, stubborn, unrepenting villain,
  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 mansstruction,
  whose unsubmitting heart was all his crime.—
  evn you, ye hapless crew! i pity you;
  ye, whom the seeming good think sin to pity;
  ye poor,spised, abandoned vagabonds,
  whom vice, as usual, has turnd oer to ruin.
  oh! but for friends and interposing heaven,
  i had been driven forth like you forlorn,
  the mosttested, worthless wretch among you!
  o injured god! thy goodness has endowd me
  with talents passing most of mypeers,
  which i in just proportion have abused—
  as far surpassing othermon villains
  as thou in natural parts has given me more.