Said every being there; then silent was the Hall. }
“Early in life, beneath my parent’s roof,
Of man’s true honour I had noble proof;
A generous lover who was worthy found,
Where half his sex are hollow and unsound.
“My father fail’d in trade, and sorrowing died,
When all our loss a generous youth supplied;
And soon the time drew on when he could say, }
‘O! fix the happy, fix the early day!’ }