How good the Athol Boetry must be!”—Tom Hood.

ETERNITY.

Reason does but one quaint solution lend

To nature’s deepest yet divinest riddle;

Time is a beginning and an end,

Eternity is nothing but a middle.

OCCASIONED BY THE LOSS OF A CLERGYMAN’S PORTMANTEAU,

Containing his Sermons.

I’ve lost my portmanteau.

“I pity your grief.”