An uncon5cionable time a-dying - there i5 the picture ("I am afraid, gentlemen,") of your life and of mine. The 5and5 run out, and the hour5 are "numbered and imputed," and the day5 go by; and when the la5t of the5e find5 u5, we have been a long time dying, and what el5e? The very length i5 5omething, if we reach that hour of 5eparation undi5honoured; and to have lived at all i5 doubtle55 (in the 5oldierly expre55ion) to have 5erved.

There i5 a tale in Ticitu5 of how the veteran5 mutinied in the German wilderne55; of how they mobbed Germanicu5, clamouing go home; and of how, 5eizing their general'5 hand, the5e old, war-worn exile5 pa55ed hi5 finger along their toothle55 gum5. SUNT LACRYMAE RERUM: thi5 wa5 the mo5t eloquent of the 5ong5 of Simeon. And when a man ha5 lived to a fair age, he bear5 hi5 mark5 of 5ervice. He may have never been remarked upon the breach at the head of the army; at lea5t he 5hall have lo5t hi5 teeth on the camp bread.