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[Joseph was the Christian name of the celebrated painter usually styled Wright of Derby.—Ed.]
Thomas Falconer, Esq., of Chester.
Conundrum (Vol. vi., p. 602.).—Though I cannot answer the Query of Rufus, as to the manner in which the species of conundrum communicated by him may be designated, I beg to inclose an answer to it, thinking you might perhaps deem it worthy of insertion:
Cold, sinful, sorrowful, this earth,
And all who seek in it their rest;
But though such mother gives us birth,
Let us not call ourselves unblest.
Though weak and earthly be our frame,
Within it dwells a nobler part;