Whose watchful eye is ever on his own. 40
You talk of patriots, men who give up all,
Yea, life itself, at their dear country’s call:
He look’d on such as men of other date—
Men to admire, and not to imitate;
They as his Bible-Saints to him appear’d:
Lost to the world, but still to be revered.
Yet there’s a Widow, in a neighbouring street,
Whom he contrives in Sunday-dress to meet;
Her’s house and land; and these are more delight