Proud as a man, and haughty when a child?

Talents were his; he was in nature kind,

With lofty, strong, and independent mind;

His father wealthy, but, in very truth,

He was a rash, untamed, expensive youth;

And, as I now remember the report,

Told how his father’s money he would sport.

Yet in his dress and manner now appears

No sign of faults that stain’d his earlier years; 130

Mildness there seems, and marks of sober sense,