Had won the man’s regard, and he with her 120
Possess’d the treasure vulgar minds prefer.
A man of thrift, and thriving, he possess’d
What he esteem’d of earthly good the best;
And Lucy’s well-stored mind had not a charm
For this true lover of the well-stock’d farm,
This slave to petty wealth and rustic toil,
This earth-devoted wooer of the soil.—
But she with meekness took the wayward child,
And sought to make the savage nature mild.