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: