Forth from the tent her elder brother came,

Who seem’d offended, yet forbore to blame

The young designer, but could only trace

The looks of pity in the trav’ller’s face:

Within, the Father, who from fences nigh

Had brought the fuel for the fire’s supply,

Watch’d now the feeble blaze, and stood dejected by.

On ragged rug, just borrow’d from the bed,

And by the hand of coarse indulgence fed,

In dirty patchwork negligently dress’d,