That is most certain—What! can more be told?
Will he return, who has so long been gone,
And lost to us? Oh! what of Uncle John?”
This was aside: their unobservant friend
Seem’d on their thoughts but little to attend; 600
A traveller speaking, he was more inclined
To tell his story than their thoughts to find.
“Although, my Friends, I love you well, ’tis true, }
’Twas your relation turn’d my mind to you; }
For we were friends of old, and friends like us are few; }