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"Unhappy wretch, whom Justice calls

To bide your doom within these walls,

Know that to thee this gloomy cell

May prove, perhaps, the porch of Hell.

Thy crimes contest, thy sins forgiven,

Mysterious change! it leads to heaven."

It is to be hoped that the soul of the poor prisoner experienced the "mysterious change" which his untimely fate led him so fully to appreciate.