Little Jack Sheppard <br />handsome, witty & a bit of a charmer. <br /> <br />Not the most <br />successful highway man <br />known to man. <br /> <br />However to make up for this...defect <br />he’s an expert <br />at getting out of jail. <br /> <br />Seems to have a monopoly on it. <br /> <br />Small and wiry <br />slipping through the bars. <br /> <br />Aided & abetted <br />by Edgworth Bess <br />& Poll Maggot <br /> <br />(both equally besotted) <br /> <br />he escapes from <br />Newgate prison. <br /> <br />But by 22 <br />he’s over the hill <br /> <br />dancing <br />dancing on air <br /> <br />the wind in his hair <br /> <br />courtesy of a hempen rope. <br /> <br />All good things coming...as they do...to an end. <br /> <br />Death(that highway man) <br />ordering him to stand & deliver. <br /> <br />The money of his life.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-was-a-ribbon-of-moonlight/
