Bath.
[Footnote 9: [_Joseph_ was the Christian name of the celebrated painter
usually styled Wright of Derby.--ED.]]
[Footnote 10: Thomas Falconer, Esq., of Chester.]
_Conundrum_ (Vol. vi., p. 602.).--Though I cannot answer the Query of
RUFUS, as to the manner in which the species of conundrum communicated by
him may be designated, I beg to inclose an answer to it, thinking you might
perhaps deem it worthy of insertion:
Cold, sinful, sorrowful, this _earth_,
And all who seek in it their rest;
But though such mother gives us birth,
Let us not call ourselves unblest.
Though weak and earthly be our frame,
Within it dwells a nobler part;
A holy, heavenly, living flame
Pervades and purifies the _heart_.
To loving, glowing hearts in joy,
Shall not our _hearths_ and homes abound?
May not glad praise our lips employ,
And, though on earth, half heaven be found?