If still for friends your heart can glow,

Your purse be shared with starving merit;

“If yet, to sordid sins unknown,

No avarice in your heart has started;

If you have not suspicious grown,

Sour, garrulous, or narrow hearted;

“You still are young! and o’er my face,

(Howe’er its features may be shaded)

Shall throw the sunshine of your grace,

And keep the moral part unfaded.