<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527053" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Saga Of A Convict Lass</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such a nice girl <br>funny she never married.<br>Such a nice girl <br>money purchases only pearls.<br>Wisdom Sentimentality Sincerity.<br>Are free <br>inflating hearts that can be<br>above treacherous currents <br>embroiled <br>in bitter misty <br>dark green sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Past waves sucked out marrow <br>chilling chipped raw bones <br>stripping striped <br>flayed flesh.<br>Balsam rubbed in hardens <br>shuddering residual resistance.<br>As gashed groaning flesh <br>rigidly resists <br>handfuls of coarse salt.<br>Raked across weeping wounds <br>scouraged bitterly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lashes tongue flickering frequent <br>constant incriminations <br>falling relentlessly.<br>Cat-o’-nine-tails <br>allows neither <br>respite nor escape. <br>Killing by inches <br>held within rigged triangles <br>warranted flogging.<br>Canary century lashing ceremony <br>preceding gallows-tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smelling salts sympathy denial Governor ordered <br>bridled regress deriving unconsciousness.<br>Induces no reverence <br>for suppurate righteous system.<br>Criminal tendencies mild discipline <br>sought to correct. Countless cruel blows <br>execute swinging carcass preliminaries.<br>While pantomime noosing rope end <br>round own neck passes for pleasantness.<br>Before affixing leg-chain <br>clinking clanking dragging irons. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leg-bail impediment <br>affixed at left anklet <br>limits a woman’s freedom <br>surged natural running pace. <br>Fetters confine womanly grip.<br>Destitution’s free hands hopelessly handcuffed <br>impedes sentence side-stepped avoidance.<br>Imposes full furnaced marital crime.<br>Plead belly cheats hangman’s release <br>in exchange Wifely Newgate a prison keeps.<br>Until executioner’s enticing hand. Ends deprivation time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br>Written in October 1995 on the 4.10.1995.<br>‘The Saga Of A Convict Lass’ is the original template poem for a collage of poems, symbolic of collective convict suffering, yet unique experiences of individuals, during the penal transportation period. See also ‘Penal Transportation: Forgotten Gaelic Slaves’, ‘Money Purchases Only Pearls’, ‘Flogged Upon Rack At Sea’ and ‘Sentenced For The Term Of Her Natural Life’ by Terence George Craddock.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527053" data-title="The Saga Of A Convict Lass de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Such a nice girl funny she never married. Such a nice girl money purchases only pearls. Wisdom Sentimentality Sincerity. Are free inflating hearts that can be above treacherous currents embroiled in bitter misty dark green sea. Past waves s..."></div> </div> </div>

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