Sweetest, freshest flowers distill'd,

That shed fresh sweets for you.

And what of life remains for me,

I'll pass in sober ease—

Half-pleased, contented will I be,

Content—but half to please.

[228:1] MSS. R.S.E. The third piece appears to be in Hume's hand; but it is written with so much schoolboy stiffness, that one cannot feel sure of its being so: perhaps it may be a production of very early life.

[232:1] See p. [144].

[233:1] MS. R.S.E. Probably James Crawford of Auchinames.

[234:1] Macgibbon was the name of a dissipated musical composer.