“Crow—crow—perhaps I might, now I recall

The matter over.” “And pray, sir, what was’t?”

“Why, I was horrid sick, and, at the last,

I did throw up, and told my neighbor so,

Something that was—as black, sir, as a crow.”

John Byrom.

AN EPITAPH

A lovely young lady I mourn in my rhymes;

She was pleasant, good-natured, and civil (sometimes);

Her figure was good; she had very fine eyes,