Joseph Skipsey

The Petition

DEAR critics, pray, what have I done
   That thus you frown so? tell me truly?
‘You’ve for your neck a halter spun,
   In blaming of our race unduly!’
 
Don’t hang me, pray!—Just praise my lay,
   And I will swear the Muse but garbled
My sweet intent; and what was meant
   Was not the blame the Gipsy warbled!
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