And left tse world an universal blank.”

From The Literary Gazette.

——:o:——

An Elegy,

Written in the King’s Bench Prison.

The turnkey rings the bell for shutting out,

The visitor walks slowly to the gate;

The debtor chum-ward hastes in idle rout,

And leaves the Bench to darkness, me, and fate.

Now fades the high-spiked wall upon the sight,