es things fixed and immovable such as lands and
tenements.

LV. THE NOSE AND THE EYES.

William Cowper (b. 1731, d. 1800) was the son of an English clergyman, and
was born in Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. He was sent to
Westminster School when he was ten years of age, and he remained there, a
diligent student, eight years. He then studied law, and was admitted to
the bar, but he never practiced his profession. He was appointed to a
clerkship in the House of Lords when he was about thirty years old, but he
never entered upon the discharge of his duties. He became insane, and was
sent to a private asylum. After his recovery, he found a home in the
family of the Rev. Mr. Unwin. On the death of this gentleman, he resided
with the widow till her death--most of the time at Olney. His first
writing's were published in 1782. "The Task," some hymns, a number of
minor poems, and his translations or Homer, composed his published works.
His insanity returned at times, and darkened a pure and gentle life at its
close.

1. Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose;
The spectacles set them, unhappily, wrong;
The point in dispute was, as all the world knows,
To which the said spectacles ought to belong.

2. So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause,
With a great deal of skill and a wig full of learning,
While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws,
So famed for his talent in nicely discerning.

3. "In behalf of the Nose, it will quickly appear,
And your lordship," he said, "will undoubtedly find,
That the Nose has the spectacles always to wear,
Which amounts to possession, time out of mind."

4. Then, holding the spectacles up to the court,
"Your lordship observes, they are made with a straddle
As wide as the ridge of the Nose is; in short,
Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.

5. "Again, would your lordship a moment suppose
('T is a case that has happened, and may happen again)
That the visage or countenance had not a Nose,
Pray, who would or who could wear spectacles then?

6. "On the whole it appears, and my argument shows,
With a reasoning the court will never condemn,
That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose,
And the Nose was as plainly intended for them."

7. Then shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how),
He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes:
But what were his arguments, few peo