You would not justly call the light unkind:

But is he dead? and am I to suppose

The power of poison in such looks as those?”

She spoke, and pointing to the mirror, cast

A pleased gay glance, and curtsied as she pass’d.

My Lord, to whom the poet’s fate was told,

Was much affected, for a man so cold:

“Dead!” said his lordship, “run distracted, mad!

Upon my soul I’m sorry for the lad;

And now no doubt th’ obliging world will say