leech-gatherer's

Updated: June 4, 2025

Nay, even when a state far below the Leech-Gatherer's has been reached, and mind and body alike are in their last decay, the life of the Old Cumberland Beggar, at one remove from nothingness, has yet a dignity and a usefulness of its own.

F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers - Wordsworth