How he, with oath and furious speech, began
To prove his freedom and assert the man;
And when the parent check’d his impious rage,
How he had cursed the tyranny of age, -
Nay, once had dealt the sacrilegious blow
On his bare head, and laid his parent low;
The father groan’d - “If thou art old,” said he,
“And hast a son - thou wilt remember me:
Thy mother left me in a happy time,
Thou kill’dst not her - heav’n spares the double crime.”