That I should nurse the stranger, give it air,

Ay, ay, and food, if need be; let it grow.

God’s child alone, I have no fear of it.

VI.

Long after that, our Haydn found no chance

To talk with me; and this, I know not why.

My father—I could never find out why

My father aught surmised: we walk’d alone,

Doretta, Haydn, I—my father though

From this time seem’d less trustful; not that he