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I'm pardoned out. Again the stars / Shine on me with their myriad eyes. / So long I've peered 'twixt iron bars, / I'm awed by this expanse of skies. / The world is wider than I thought, / And yet 'tis not so wide, I know, / But into its remotest spot / My tale of shame can go.
I'm pardoned out. Old Father Time / Who seemed to halt in horror, when / I stained my manhood by a crime, / With steady step moves on again, / And through the black appalling night, / That walled me in a gloom accurst, / The wonder of the morning light / In sudden glory burst.