The sober'd features of a well-known face—

Looks once familiar, manners form'd to please,

And all illumined by a heart at ease.

But fraud and flattery ever claim'd a part

(Still unresisted) of that easy heart;

But he at length beholds me—"Ah! my friend!

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And have thy pleasures this unlucky end?"

"Too sure," he said, and, smiling as he sigh'd:

"I went astray, though prudence seem'd my guide;