On The Ballad Of Reading Jail Poem by Francis Duggan

The Ballad of Reading Jail by Oscar Wilde is something worth the read
It is a poem of quality a major poem indeed
It's author was a famous man and he lives on in renown
And he spend some time as we well know in the Jail of Reading Town.

The story of the hanged man is indeed a tragic tale
Of the murderer whose life was stolen from him by the hangman of Reading Jail
Human acts of true greatness are seen as a glorious thing
But of the cruelty of human to human few bother for to sing.

The great poem of the hanged one's lot is a poem born of tears
It's author was in Reading Jail in his declining years
A literary colossal he scaled the heights of fame
Though he spent the low point of his literary career in Reading's pit of shame.

One of the great anti capital punishment poems that relates to today
Than a life for another life there is a fairer way
To the Natural law of Karma for our sins we all must pay
And some man made laws for serious crime can be so cruel that would seem fair to say.

Oscar in his poem of Reading Jail the sad story did tell
Of the tragic one condemned to die in his life of Earthly hell
He penned the poem in his latter years well past his writing prime
And yet it lives as something great and stands the test of time.