Hatred and vengence—my eternal portion <br />Scarce can endure delay of execution— <br />Wait with impatient readiness to seize my <br />Soul in a moment. <br /> <br />Damned below Judas; more abhorred than he was, <br />Who for a few pence sold his holy Master! <br />Twice betrayed, Jesus me, the last delinquent, <br />Deems the profanest. <br /> <br />Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: <br />Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; <br />Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all <br />Bolted against me. <br /> <br />Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers; <br />Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, <br />I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence <br />Worse than Abiram's. <br /> <br />Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice <br />Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong; <br />I, fed with judgment, in a fleshy tomb am <br />Buried above ground.<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-written-during-a-period-of-insanity/
