Prayers for Condemned Malefactors, 10

Our punishment accepting here
With penitent remorse;
With bitter grief, and torturing fear,
We end our shameful course.

Set forth a spectacle to all,
The refuse of mankind;
AVe on our guilty brethren call.
And leave a word behind.

'3 Warning, ye sons of rapine, take,
By our unhappy doom:
Now, now your evil ways forsake.
And 'scape the wrath to come.

Before the righteous wrath of men
Your careless souls surprise;
And give you up to lasting pain.
And death that never dies.

Merciful God, to them extend.
To us, Thy saving grace.
And show Thyself the sinner's Friend
To all our dying race.

And lo! before Thy face to' appear,
We now from earth remove,
Concluding with an act sincere
Of sorrow, faith, and love.