Vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut æquum est,
Cui tantum in vitâ [restet] transire malorum.
Lucret. de Nat. Rerum, lib. v. [vv. 223—5, 227—8.]
The year revolves, and I again explore
The simple annals of my parish poor:
What infant-members in my flock appear;
What pairs I bless'd in the departed year;
And who, of old or young, or nymphs or swains,
Are lost to life, its pleasures and its pains.
No Muse I ask, before my view to bring