Or he was sullen—He would come and play
At his own time, and at his pleasure stay;
But our kind parent soothed him as a boy }
Without a friend; she loved he should enjoy }
A day of ease, and strove to give his mind employ. }
She had but seldom the desired success,
And therefore parting troubled her the less;
Two years he there remain’d; then went his way—
I think to school; and him I met to-day.
“I heard his name, or he had past unknown; 20