Our nature, even in Eden gross and vile, And by miraculous grace alone upheld, Is now itself, and foul, and damned, must die Ere we can live; let halting worldlings, madam, Maunder against earth's ties, yet clutch them still.

He had seen convicts, after the guards had manhandled them, crippled in body for life, or left to maunder in mind to the end of their days.

" "Oh, go to bed, Sylvia; don't sit there maundering over the concert," said her mother, with a good-natured asperity.