5.
'Twere hard to say who fared the best:
Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
He lost his labour, I my jest:
For he was drowned, and I've the ague.[8]
May 9, 1810.
[First published, Childe Harold, 1812 (4to).]
'Twere hard to say who fared the best:
Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
He lost his labour, I my jest:
For he was drowned, and I've the ague.[8]
May 9, 1810.
[First published, Childe Harold, 1812 (4to).]