He'd but one care, and that he strove to hide,
How best for Richard Monday to provide.
Steel, through opposing plates, the magnet draws,
And steely atoms culls from dust and straws;
And thus our hero, to his interest true,
750
Gold through all bars and from each trifle drew;
But, still more surely round the world to go,
This fortune's child had neither friend nor foe.
Long lost to us, at last our man we trace—