If chance, in after days by fancy led,
Some sporting novice shall enquire thy fate.
Haply some aged Jockey may reply
Oft have we seen him on Newmarket course,
With steadfast gaze and scrutinizing eye
Watching the trial of some fav’rite horse.
One morn we miss’d him on the accustom’d spot
Just by the ditch, (the meeting week was near,)
The races came but we beheld him not,
At length to church-yard move we saw his bier.