Клуб "Преступление и наказание"

I was a bit surprised to find this poem on a vanilla site...


<p align="center">Now the victim low is bending,
Now the fearful rod descending,
Hark a blow! Again, again
Sounds the instrument of pain.
Goddess of mercy! oh impart
Thy kindness to the doctor's heart:
Bid him words of pardon say—
Cast the blood-stained scourge away.
In vain, in vain! he will not hear:
Mercy is a stranger there.
Justice, unrelenting dame,
First asserts her lawful claim.
This is aye her maxim true:
"They who sin must suffer too."
When of fun we've had our fill,
Justice then sends in her bill,
And as soon as we have read it,
Pay we must: she gives no credit.

-----From The Charter-House Play, excerpted in
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April 1873 </p>

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Oh, Dear! I thought it was your own poem, Miss Grey... Why didn't you tell about the poem's English origin from the very beginig?
To tell you the truth, it didn't impress me much... But, I can confess, that the subject itself is rather difficult, so it must be hard to find the right words; especialy, if we talk about verses.

Anyhow, thank you for posting it here.