127/791 No book could have so early taught me to think of the changes to which human life is subject, and while looking at him I could not but say to myself, We may, any of us, I or the happiest of my playmates, live to become still more the object of pity than the old man, this half-doating pilferer. *_Animal Tranquillity and Decay_. [V.] If I recollect right, these verses were an overflow from the 'Old Cumberland Beggar.' * * * * * XXIV. EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES. |