And was his Maker’s sooner than his own:
The heavenly book he made his only school—
In youth his study, and in age his rule.
A Moses, for humility and zeal;
For innocence, a true Nathaniel;
Faithful as Abraham, or the truer spies;
No man more honest, and but few so wise:
Humility was his darling grace,
And honesty sat regent in his face.
A heavenly patience did his mind possess—