From room to room the weary guests went on,
Till every Rayner wish’d the show was done.
Home they return’d; the Father deeply sigh’d }
To find he vainly had for aid applied; }
It hurt him much to ask—and more to be denied. }
The younger Richard, who alone sustain’d
The dying Friendship, true to Love remain’d.
His Phœbe’s smiles, although he did not yet
Fly to behold, he could not long forget;
Nor durst he visit, nor was love so strong, 260