And feel in that his comfort and his pride.
At length he found, when seventy years were run,
His strength departed, and his labour done;
When he, save honest fame, retain'd no more,
But lost his wife and saw his children poor:
'Twas then, a spark of—say not, discontent—
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Struck on his mind, and thus he gave it vent:
"Kind are your laws, ('tis not to be denied,)
That in yon house for ruin'd age provide,