The family-group repeat their kind adieu;
Once more he’s on the path to gain and wealth,
And meets a friend, who startles him anew!
The news of some disastrous incident
Now smites him like a demon’s evil dart—
The bank, in which he felt most confident,
Is “broken,” and will soon have broke his heart!
He then to Heaven uplifts his tearful eyes
(Adversity had check’d the worldly spark);
Despairingly he ponders, then he sighs,