5.Of Rope And Arsenic
Sung after the noose made its killing.
For slaughter, is not absent of laughter.
The killing of a murderer put to death,
For the children and husbands hereafter.
An English heart habitual of the cold.
Arsenic poisoning and insurance could present a finer life,
For this wretched black widow, once a loveless wife.
Persuasive emotion soon lost its effect;
As the hour soon saw this Venus flytrap sentenced to death.
A daemons reserved demeanour asserts innocence：-
And petitions fail.
When presented to the home secretary to no avail.
Sung were the words that she'd be forgotten,
The opposite effect for the rhyme gave life through history;
To this Mary Ann Cotton.
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