The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment

Inscription: in plate above image: "THE BLOODY MASSACRE perpetrated in King-Street BOSTON on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Reg-t."
in plate, within image, lower right: "Engrav'd Printed & Sold by PAUL REVERE BOSTON"
in plate, below image, three columns of verse:
First column: "Unhappy Boston! see thy Sons deplore, / Thy hallow'd Walks besmear'd with guiltless gore: / While faithless P-n and, his savage Bands, / With murd'rous Rancour stretch their bloody Hands; / Like fierce Barbarians grinning o'er their Prey, / Approve the Carnage and enjoy the Day."
Second column: "If scalding drops from Rage from Anguish Wrung / If speechless Sorrows lab'ring for a Tongue / Or if a weeping World can ought appease / The plaintive Ghosts of Victims such as these / The Patriot's copious Tears for each are shed. / A glorious Tribute which embalms the Dead."
Third column: "But know, Fate summons to that awful Goal: / Where Justice strips the Murd'rer of his Soul: / Should venal C--ts the scandal of the Land. / Snatch the relentless Villain from her Hand. / Keen Execrations on this Plate inscrib'd, / Shall reach a Judge who never can be brib'd."
Below verses: "Copy Right Secured"
in plate, below verses: "The unhappy Sufferers were Mess-s Sam-l Gay, Sam-l Maverick, Jam-s Caldwell, Crispus Atticus & Pat-k Carr / Killed. Six wounded ; two of them (Chris-r Monk & John Lake) Mortally"
In plate, along lower edge: "Boston Fac-Simile Republished at 15 Water St. March 5, 1832"

Charles Allen Munn (American)

Clarence S. Brigham Paul Revere's Engravings. New York, 1969, plate 22.