The partial widow thought the wasted days
He would recover, urged by love and praise;
And thus absolved, the boy, with grateful mind,
Repaid a love so useful and so blind;
Her angry words he loved, although he fear’d,
And words not angry doubly kind appear’d. 200
George, then on manhood verging, felt the charms
Of war, and kindled at the world’s alarms;
Yet war was then, though spreading wide and far,
A state of peace to what has since been war: