The Country Justice.
Part i
Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew,
Gave the sad presage of his future years,
The child of misery, baptized in tears.
DR. WALCOTT.
1738-1819.
Peter Pindar's Expostulatory Odes to a great Duke and a little Lord. Ode XV.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin, so merry, draws one out.