Yes—it was so; and always on this day
He kept a sort of sacred jubilee.
It seems, by record, that George Hollybrand was born
Some fifty years ago at Merrythorn,
Which place (’tis said, by those who’ve sojourn’d there)
Had gain’d repute for its salubrious air;
And George’s father—Michael Hollybrand,
Own’d a small territ’ry of pasture-land;
But owing to some law-suit he sustained—
Worse fortune for his son—was almost ruined: