And she perchance too grateful - good and ill

Were sown at first, and grow together still;

The colour’d infants on the village green,

What are they more than we have often seen?

Children half-clothed who round their village stray,

In sun or rain, now starved, now beaten, they

Will the dark colour of their fate betray:

Let us in Christian love for all account,

And then behold to what such tales amount.”

“His heart is evil,” said the impatient Friend: