All his desire, when he was young and poor,
Was to advance; he never cared for more:
“Let me buy, sell, be factor, take a wife,
Take any road, to get along in life.”
Was he a miser then? a robber? foe
To those who trusted? a deceiver? - No!
He was ambitious; all his powers of mind
Were to one end controll’d, improved, combined;
Wit, learning, judgment, were, by his account,
Steps for the ladder he design’d to mount;