So good and grieving, and his place was high 70

In their esteem, his friendly brother’s nigh,

But yet beneath; and when he said adieu!

Their tone was kind, and was responsive too.

Parting was painful; when adieu he cried,

“You will return?” the gentle girls replied;

“You must return! your Brother knows you now,

But to exist without you knows not how;

Has he not told us of the lively joy

He takes—forgive us—in the Brother-boy?