“To be a Prodigal's favourite,—then, worse truth,
A Miser's pensioner,—behold our lot!”

The Small Celandine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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“To be a Prodigal's favourite,—then, worse truth,
A Miser's pensioner,—behold our lot!”