If A Farmer Fills His

On His Bold Visage Middle Age Had Slightly Press'd Its Signet Sage, Yet Had Not Quench'd The Open Truth And Fiery Vehemence Of Youth: Forward And Frolic Glee Was There, The Will To Do, The Soul To Dare.

It Is The Privilege Of Tale-tellers To Open Their Story In An Inn, The Free Rendezvous Of All Travellers, And Where The Humour Of Each Displays Itself, Without Ceremony Or Restraint.

What Can They See In The Longest Kingly Line In Europe, Save That It Runs Back To A Successful Soldier?

That Day Of Wrath, That Dreadful Day. When Heaven And Earth Shall Pass Away.

Necessity--thou Best Of Peacemakers, As Well As Surest Prompter Of Invention.