To indulge and to instruct the darling boy;

To watch, to soothe, to check the forward child,

Who was at once affectionate and wild;

Happy and grateful for her tender care,

And pleased her thoughts and company to share.

George was a boy with spirit strong and high, 140

With handsome face, and penetrating eye;

O’er his broad forehead hung his locks of brown,

That gave a spirit to his boyish frown;

“My little man,” were words that she applied