The Vault at Pfaff's
Shepherd, N. G. "The Lay of the Common Scoundrel [from 'Vanity Fair' Oct. 6]." New-York Saturday Press, October 16, 1860, 4.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract
Poem chronicling the life of a politician. He steals food, drugs a man and takes his watch, and later kills a man as he rises through the social order.