No fierce reproaches from deserted fair,

Mixed with wild tenderness of desperate prayer;

So hope rose softly in the parent’s breast; }

He, dying, called his son and fondly blest, }

Hailed the propitious tear, and mildly sunk to rest. }

Unhappy Youth! e’er yet the tomb was closed,

And dust to dust convey’d in peace repos’d,

He sought his father’s closet, search’d around,

To find a Will: the important Will was found. 60

Well pleased he read, “These lands, this manor, all,