And lies he made his profit and his jest.
Such was the boy, and such the man had been,
But fate or happier fortune changed the scene;
A fever seized him, “He should surely die - ”
He fear’d, and lo! a friend was praying by;
With terror moved, this Teacher he address’d,
And all the errors of his youth confess’d:
The good man kindly clear’d the Sinner’s way
To lively hope, and counsell’d him to pray;
Who then resolved, should he from sickness rise,