Spring out of this, as from a seed
All sorts of vegetals proceed;
From whence the learned sons of art
Os sacrum justly style that part.—Hudibras.
DYING WORDS OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS.
There taught us how to live; and—oh, too high
A price for knowledge!—taught us how to die.—Tickell.
On parent knees, a naked, new-born child,
Weeping thou sat’st, while all around thee smiled;
So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep,