And serious sums in healing misery spent;
Oft has he cheer’d the wretched at a rate
For which he daily might have dined on plate;
He has been seen - his hair all silver-white,
Shaking and shining - as he stole by night,
To feed unenvied on his still delight.
A twofold taste he had; to give and spare,
Both were his duties, and had equal care;
It was his joy to sit alone and fast,
Then send a widow and her boys repast: