VIII. THE FAMILY NAME. WHAT reason first imposed thee, gentle name, Name that my father bore, and his sire's sire, Without reproach? we trace our stream no higher; And I, a childless man, may end the same. VOL. I. IX. TO JOHN LAMB, Esq. OF THE SOUTH-SEA-HOUSE. JOHN, you were figuring in the gay career Though time has made the difference dis appear Betwixt our ages, which then seemed so great- O! you do well in this. "Tis man's worst deed To let the " things that have been" run to waste, And in the unmeaning present sink the past: Which you, and I, and one more, only know. .X. O! I could laugh to hear the midnight wind, Or take my portion with the winds that rave. XI. We were two pretty babes, the youngest she, Time was, we two had wept to have been apart. That I may seek thee the wide world around? |