NO. 3. GENERAL DEBILITY.
My cheeks are pale, mine eyes are weak,
I 've cramp in every joint;
My jaws are toothless, and my beak
Is fractured—near the point.
In youth, by falling from a tree,
I broke my boyish spine;
And never yet did mortal see
Such hideous legs as mine.
In early life my skull was crack'd,
By tumbling down a drain,
And ever since my head is rack'd
With agonising pain.
But though misfortunes thickly come,
This thought consoles my mind—
If I had not been deaf and dumb,
Perhaps I should be blind.