Hatred and vengeance, 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, this 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 center headlong; <br />I, fed with judgment, in a fleshly tomb, am <br /> Buried above ground.<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hatred-and-vengeance-my-eternal-portion/
