The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
Lord Byron (On my Thirty-sixth Year).
’Tis a very good world to live in,
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own
’Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
J. Bromfield.