For maintenance of a noble part.
2. And thou a voucher[628] fair hast given,
Of what thou wilt achieve,
Ere age has dimmed thy sunlit heaven
In weary life’s chill eve;
Should Sovereign Wisdom in its grace
Vouchsafe to thee so long a race.
3. My brother, we are linked with chain
That time shall ne’er destroy;
Together we have been in pain,