And when the tax-gatherer oppressed his neighbours, he pleaded their cause, which was also his own, in the courts of Athens, and gained it by the interest of Alcibiades.

Amos is specially the poor man's prophet, for he was a poor man himself; not a courtier like Isaiah, or a priest like Jeremiah, or a sage like Daniel; but a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit in Tekoa, near Bethlehem, where Amos was born.

"I was no prophet," he said to Amaziah, "nor a prophet's son, but a herdsman, and a gatherer of wild figs.

In my next Transmigration I was again set upon two Legs, and became an Indian Tax-gatherer; but having been guilty of great Extravagances, and being marry'd to an expensive Jade of a Wife, I ran so cursedly in debt, that I durst not shew my Head.

The very interesting account, which he is lucky enough at last to comprehend, fills the poet with comfort and admiration; and, quite glad to find the old man so cheerful, he resolves to take a lesson of contentedness from him; and the poem ends with this pious ejaculation "God," said I, "be my help and stay secure; I'll think of the leech-gatherer on the lonely moor."

The wallflowers no longer deck the old towers and gateways with their yellow bloom, and scent the morning and evening air with their fragrance; the countless flags upon the rocky shelves no longer flaunt their splendid blue and purple, tempting the flower-gatherer to risk a broken neck; the poet's narcissus and the tall asphodel alike are gone; so are all the flowers of spring.

* THE GATHERER.

The only money that ever changed hands in that connection was when the tax-gatherer came down on Yussuf for an extra levy, because of the added trade that conceivably might be expected to accrue through the advertisement obtained by serving such an exalted customer.

The tax-gatherer also threatened the bastinado; and as the man who likes that punishment, or who could soften the heart of a Turkish tax assessor, has yet to be discovered, Yussuf invariably paid.

* THE GATHERER.

"I am but a Gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.

* THE GATHERER.

* THE GATHERER.

* THE GATHERER A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.

The Gatherer "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."

* THE GATHERER "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

* THE GATHERER.

* THE GATHERER

To signalize the despised tax-gatherer in such a way was to teach a permanent lesson of absolute unworldliness.

* THE GATHERER.

In The Mirror for June 1, 1833, are the two poems, collected under the general heading "The Gatherer," indexed "Lamb, C., lines by."

Zenobios, a gatherer of proverbs, uses the word "seer" instead of priest.

* THE GATHERER.

Truly, until I beheld that tax-gatherer of the Orient, I had no idea that the "purple-in-grain" beard existed outside a poet's fancy!

I must have gone about, I think, like a tax-gatherer, with an inkstand slung to my button-hole!