beggars-opera:The Bloody Massacre Perpetuated in King Street BOSTON on March 5th 1770 by a party of
beggars-opera:The Bloody Massacre Perpetuated in King Street BOSTON on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th REGTUnhappy Boston! See thy Sons deplore, The hallow’d Walks besmear’d wih guiltless Gore While faithless Preston and his savage Bands With murdrous Rancour stretch their bloody Hands; Like fierce Barbarians grinning o’er their Prey, Approve the Carnage and enjoy the Day.If scalding drops from Rage from Anguish Wrung If speechless Sorrows lab’ring for a Tongue, Or if a weeping World can ought appease The plaintive Ghosts of Victims such as these, The Patriot’s copious Tears for each are shed, A glorious Tribute which embalms the Dead.But know, Fate summons to that awful Goal. Where JUSTICE strips the Murd’rer of his Soul Should venal Courts the scandal of the Land, Snatch the relentless Villian from her Hand, Keen Execrations on this Plate inscrib’d, Shall reach a JUDGE who never can be brib’d.The unhappy Sufferers were Messrs SAML GRAY, SAML MAVERICK, JAMS CALDWELL, CRISPUS ATTUCKS & PATK CARR Killed Six, wounded two of them (CHRISTR MONK & JOHN CLARK) Mortally -- source link