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in his seventieth year,) much exhausted under a tree, a few yards 

 from the door. His friends in the meantime endeavoured to save 

 what they could of his property from the flames. He inquired 

 most anxiously after a box in which his manuscripts had been 

 deposited with the view to the publication of a laboriously 

 corrected edition ; and on being told that the box was consumed, 

 he expired in a few minutes, saying, or rather sighing out the 

 words, 'Then I do not wish to live!' Poor man! though the 

 circulation of his works had not extended beyond a circle of fifty 

 miles in diameter perhaps at the farthest, he was most anxious to 

 survive in the memory of those who should hear of him in his 

 poems." His "Lay" dedicated to his native village, is the best of the 

 works that have survived him. I shall quote from it a passage in 

 which he seems to regret — as old men often do regret — being left 

 alone by the death of the friends and companions of his youth. 

 Speaking of them he says : — 



And blest are you in early graves, 



For age is but protracted pain — 

 A longer strife with winds and waves. 



Upon a wild and stormy main. 

 My lot has been to linger here 



Till every earthly joy has fled ; 

 Till all is gone the heart holds dear. 



And gather'd sorrows bow my head. 



The lives of the Cumberland poets abound with contrasts ; 

 and possibly there could not be a much greater contrast than 

 is afforded between Sanderson and John Woodcock Graves, 

 the author of "D'ye ken John Peel?" I do not pause to ask 

 whether you ken John Peel or not — I take it for granted that you 

 do ; for it has been spoken of as the Cumberland anthem, and is 

 at any rate known and sung almost wherever hunters have made 

 their way. The author is not so well known. He emigrated to 

 Australia upwards of fifty years ago, and is, so far as I know, living 

 still. He has sent back the following sketch of himself: — "I was 

 connected with the woollen mills at Caldbeck for some time, and 

 these turned out a ruinous game. I was cheated, robbed, and 



