When first he came, we found he couldn’t last:
A whoreson cough (and at the fall of leaf)
Upset him quite; - but what’s the gain of grief?
“Then came the
Author-Rector
: his delight
Was all in books; to read them or to write:
Women and men he strove alike to shun,
And hurried homeward when his tasks were done;
Courteous enough, but careless what he said,