While like a schoolboy he was threatened still,
Now for the deed, now only for the will:
Here Conscience answered “To thy neighbour’s guide
Thy neighbour leave, and in thine own confide.”
Such were each day the charges and replies,
When a new object caught the trader’s eyes;
A Vestry-patriot, could he gain the name,
Would famous make him, and would pay the fame.
He knew full well the sums bequeath’d in charge
For schools, for almsmen, for the poor, were large;