Sorely thy little ones drag by thee barefooted, Cold is the baby that hangs at thy bending back— Meagre and livid, and screaming its wretchedness. Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony, As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe, Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy haggard face. Thy husband will never return from the war again; Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity— Cold are thy famished babes—God help thee, widowed one!] 1795. Footnote 19: [“Walked to the Old Bailey to see DAVID ISAAC EATON in the pillory. The mob was decidedly friendly to him. His having published PAINE’S _Age of Reason_ was not an intelligible offence to them.”—_Crabb Robinson’s Diary_, i. 386. The Proclamation against _Seditious Writings_, however, was supported by some influential Whigs. “PITT had previously sent copies of it to several members of the Opposition in both Houses, requesting their advice,” says Lord Malmesbury. Whether PITT desired it or not, no measure could have been more effectual for dividing the Whig party.—ED.] Footnote 20: [See p. 38.—ED.] Footnote 21: My worthy friend the bellman had promised to supply an additional stanza; but the business of assisting the lamplighter, chimney-sweeper, &c., with complimentary verses for their worthy masters and mistresses, pressing on him at this season, he was obliged to decline it. [A quiz at the third stanza, which was contributed by COLERIDGE.—ED.] Footnote 22: [Thomas Dyche was a clergyman, and kept a school at Stratford-le-Bow. He was the author of an English dictionary, a spelling-book, a Latin vocabulary, &c. He died about 1750. Thomas Dilworth, whose educational works were long popular, was for some time his assistant, and then set up a school for himself at Wapping. He died in 1781.—ED.] Footnote 23: [_and_ should have been omitted.—ED.] Footnote 24: [The Latin Verses, much admired at the time, were written by the Marquis WELLESLEY at Walmer Castle, in 1797, at the desire of PITT, and were published after the author’s departure for India, in the _Anti-Jacobin_. The beautiful translation of them was by Lord MORPETH, afterwards sixth Earl of CARLISLE, whose mother was the daughter of GRANVILLE LEVESON GOWER, first Marquis of STAFFORD. He died in 1848.] Footnote 25: The original poem as translated, or rather paraphrased, by Prof. J. D. Carlyle, is here subjoined:— THE CHOICE. Sabla! thou saw’st th’ exulting foe In fancied triumphs crown’d: Thou heard’st their frantic females throw These galling taunts around: “Make now YOUR CHOICE—the terms we give, Desponding victims, hear! These fetters on your _hands_ receive, Or in your _hearts_ the spear.”