He could be soften’d—Is he kinder now?

Hard was his heart; but yet a heart of steel

May melt in dying, and dissolving feel.

II.

F. What were his feelings I cannot explain,

His actions only on my mind remain.

He never married, that indeed we know,

But childless was not, as his foes could show—

Perhaps his friends—for friends, as well as foes,

Will the infirmities of man disclose. 50