I feel how much thy loss means to my heart;
For when the sun sinks suddenly to rest,
'Tis then that darkness grows most manifest.
Of a more humorous nature are the following lines[[125-4]] put in the form of questions and answers:—
Question. What is the most useful thing to any man in life?
Answer. Knowledge, or wealth, or a good and loving wife.
Question. But, if none of these commodities man has ever got?
Answer. Then by keeping golden silence he might improve his lot.
Question. And if he cannot do so, that poor and hapless knave?
Answer. Then let him go away at once, and dig himself a grave.