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  • I can remember, with unsteady feet,
    Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure
    In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long
    Have lost their power to please; which when I see them,
    Raise only now a melancholy wish
    I were the little trifler once again,
    Who could be pleas'd so lightly.

    Robert Southey (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)”, p.306