Now, when the corpse to Appleton[220] was ta’en—
Among the mourners were “young Mistress Jane,”
And her dear father (by his daughter’s side),
Who griev’d as though he had been long allied
To the departed! but George Hollybrand
Ne’er had the joy to clasp old Andrew’s hand
Before his spirit fled, for that same night
George came to Rollingate the soul took flight!—
And this sad sense of frail mortality,
Stung George’s heart and wrung it bitterly.