"_Myself_" (Vol. ix., p. 270.).--The inscription from a gravestone,
inserted by G. A. C., brought to my mind a poem by Bernard Barton, which I
had met with in a magazine (_The Youth's Instructor_ for December, 1826),
into which it had been copied from the _Amulet_. The piece is entitled "A
Colloquy with Myself." The first two stanzas, which I had always considered
original, are subjoined for the sake of comparison:
"As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself,
And myself replied to me;
And the questions myself then put to myself,
With their answers I give to thee.
Put them home to thyself, and if unto thyself,
Their responses the same should be:
O look well to thyself, and beware of thyself,
Or so much the worse for thee."