And reliev'd others' woes with a sigh.

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In solitude long would he stay,

And long lock'd in silence his tongue;

Then he humm'd an elegiac lay,

Or a Psalm penitential he sung:

But if with his Friends he regal'd,

His Mirth, as his Griefs, knew no bounds;

In no Tale of Mark Sargent he sail'd,

Nor in all Robin Hood's Derry-downs.