Note 533 — PART THE SECOND. (continued 12)
Reading edition
We subjoin the lines to which Cowper refers:—
"To wear out time in numb'ring to and fro The studs, that thick emboss his iron door; Then downward and then upward, then aslant And then alternate; with a sickly hope By dint of change to give his tasteless task Some relish; till the sum, exactly found In all directions, he begins again."
Book v.—Winter Morning's Walk.