But yet to lose thee, Richard, and with thee
All hope of social joys—it cannot be.
Nor could I bear to meet thee, as a boy }
From school his parents, to obtain a joy, }
That lessens day by day, and one will soon destroy. }
“No! I would have thee, Brother, all my own, 380
To grow beside me as my trees have grown:
For ever near me, pleasant in my sight,
And, in my mind, my pride and my delight.
“Yet will I tell thee, Richard: had I found