John Shaw Neilson

“ I was the younger one;
And we strove to tell each other
What a wise thing we had done.
Why should it live to plague us?
Why should it ever begin
Travelling roads of trouble,
Soiling its soul with sin? ”

“ I sold myself to the Devil
And bought a home in hell.
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