“There is no Will,” he said.—They murmur and retire. }

Days pass away, while yet the Heir is blest

By pleasant cares, and thoughts that banish rest;

When comes the Friend, and asks, in solemn tone,

If he may see the busy Squire alone.

They are in private—all about is still—

When thus the Guest:—“Your father left a Will,

And I would see it.”—Rising in reply,

The youth beheld a fix’d and piercing eye, 120

From which his own receded; and the sound