Once again, then, Who was the author of this specimen, perhaps the most perfect extant, of palindromic absurdity?
T. A. T.
Florence.
CHILDREN CRYING AT THEIR BIRTH.
"When I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."—Wisd. vii. 3.
"Tum porro Puer, ut sævis projectus ab undis
Navita, nudus, humi jacet, Infans, indigus omni
Vitali auxilio; cum primum in luminis oras
Nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit: