Days of my youth! ye have glided away,
Hairs of my youth! ye are frosted and gray;
Eyes of my youth! your keen sight is no more;
Cheeks of my youth! ye are furrow'd all o'er;
Strength of my youth! all your vigour is gone;
Thoughts of my youth! all your visions are flown!
Days of my youth! I wish not your recall,
Hairs of my youth! I'm content you should fall;
Eyes of my youth! ye much evil have seen;
Cheeks of my youth! bathed in tears have you been;
Thoughts of my youth! ye have led me astray;
Strength of my youth! why lament your decay!
Days of my age! ye will shortly be past;
Pains of my age! yet awhile can ye last;
Joys of my age! in true wisdom delight;
Eyes of my age! be religion your light;
Thoughts of my age! dread not the cold sod,
Hopes of my age! be ye fix'd on your God!--ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Judge.
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Minor Queries.
_Randall Minshull and his Cheshire Collections._--Of what family was
Randall Minshull, who, in the Addenda to Gower's _Sketch for a History of_
{468} _Cheshire_, p. 94., is stated to have professedly made a collection
for the _Antiquities of Cheshire_ by the desire of Lord Malpas? and where
is such collection at the present time to met with?