Oh! give me corn, and Heaven will bless your store.
The European Magazine. 1804.
The Third Class Traveller’s Petition.
Pity the sorrows of a third class man,
Whose trembling limbs with snow are whiten’d o’er,
Who for his fare has paid you all he can:
Cover him in, and let him freeze no more!
This dripping hat my roofless pen bespeaks,
So does the puddle’ reaching to my knees;