His very speech and manner spoke
The generous heart, the open hand;
About him all was gay or grand,
He had the praise of great and small;
He bought, improved, projected, plann’d,
And reign’d a prince at Greyling Hall.
My lady! - she was all we love;
All praise (to speak her worth) is faint;
Her manners show’d the yielding dove,
Her morals, the seraphic saint: