Produced by Marjorie Fulton
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
A SELECTION FROM HIS MEMOIRS
EDITED BY BEATRIX L. TOLLEMACHE (HON. MRS. LIONEL TOLLEMACHE)
RIVINGTON, PERCIVAL & CO.
KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN
LONDON
1896
By THE SAME AUTHOR
Engelberg, and Other Verses. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. 6s.
Jonquille, or, The Swiss Smuggler. Translated from the French of
MADAME COMBE. Crown 8vo. 6s.
Grisons Incidents in Olden Times. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d.
LONDON RIVINGTON, PERCIVAL & CO.
LIFE IS AN INN
THERE is an inn where many a guest
May enter, tarry, take his rest.
When he departs there's nought to pay,
Only he carries nought away.
'Not so,' I cried, 'for raiment fine,
Sweet thoughts, heart-joys, and hopes that shine,
May clothe anew his flitting form,
As wings that change the creeping worm.
His toil-worn garb he casts aside,
And journeys onward glorified.'