| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Last Verses | | By Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) |
| | | FAREWELL, Bristolia’s dingy piles of brick, | |
| Lovers of mammon, worshippers of trick! | |
| Ye spurned the boy who gave you antique lays, | |
| And paid for learning with your empty praise. | |
| Farewell, ye guzzling aldermanic fools, | 5 |
| By nature fitted for curruption’s tools! | |
| I go to where celestial anthems swell; | |
| But you, when you depart, will sink to hell. | |
| Farewell, my mother!—cease, my anguished soul, | |
| Nor let distraction’s billows o’er me roll! | 10 |
| Have mercy, Heaven! when here I cease to live, | |
| And this last act of wretchedness forgive. | | | | |
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