POETRY. AN APPEAL FOR SYMPATHY. I'm gentleman-help ! to the rescue, kind friends, I have nothing in nature to do
... ; I never was able to make both the ends Of my income to meet, it is true. My character's good, tho' I'm bound to confess, In the stocks I have oft' put my foot;' I've lost' in the pound,' like an ignorant ass, And come out with nothing to boot. Now, gladly a.gardener's place I would take, I'm rapidly running to seed ; I flatter myself I'm pretty good rake, And a pretty good judge of a weed ; ...