Reverend father!

Suppose a Jew possessed an only child--

A girl--whom he with fond parental care

Trained to each virtue, treasured as his soul,

Whilst she, with love as ardent as his own,

Repaid his love,--suppose it rumoured then

That she was not the daughter of this Jew,

But a poor orphan, purchased in her youth,

Or stolen, or found--or anything, but still

Of Christian birth, and in her youth baptised,