Trial of the Lilithite - Introduction

(This should go at the beginning of the series, but I missed it. Enjoy. - JC.

My name at birth: Ben Collingsworth,
A former Magistrate;
For what we did, my tears I hid
And no longer shall I wait.

Dark memories stored in the Year of our Lord
Sixteen eighty seven;
The tale within steeped in my sin;
Confess'd to earn passage to Heaven.

A debt I owe, so thou shalt know
The town on which we trod,
And how it fell straight into hell,
In the name of the Lord, our God.

My Lord - I beg -- this powder keg
Was not my heart's design;
My life near spent, I thus repent!
My soul He shan't malign.

And so I sit, and in blood writ,
Recount the terrible loss:
So many souls, now buried in holes,
Six feet 'neath Tucker's Cross.

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