4528359Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles — An oxc/1820Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick
AN OX.
I am as useful to the nation,
As some who move in higher station;
And fraught with virtues deem'd inherent,
May well be call'd the kings vicegerent;
As I his subjects render stronger,
And die that they may live the longer.
