Nor good, nor bad, nor fools, nor wise;

They would not learn, nor could advise;

Without love, hatred, joy, or fear,

They led—a kind of—as it were;

Nor wished, nor cared, nor laughed, nor cried.

And so they lived, and so they died.

A SIMILE

Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop

Thy head into a tin-man’s shop?

There, Thomas, didst thou never see