Prone to compassion, mild with the distress’d,
He bore with all who poverty profess’d,
And some would he assist, nor one would he arrest.
He had some loss at sea, bad debts at land,
His clerk absconded with some bills in hand,
And plans so often fail’d, that he no longer plann’d.
To a small house (his brother’s) he withdrew,
At easy rent - the man was not a Jew;
And there his losses and his cares he bore,
Nor found that want of wealth could make him poor.