Join in some firm, a partner in some bank— }
He and his partner, Ronaldson and Co.—
All this ambition saw: it must be so.
Perhaps these children would require a lift,
It was not right to turn them quite adrift.
Of that hereafter—and he thought beside
About the face and fortune of his bride. (O.M.)
variant of ll. 313–20:
Young as he was, and planning favourite schemes
For future grandeur, wealth’s delirious dreams!