That thou had’st shown me all before?
Thine is it all.’—He said no more,
But at my benefactor’s feet
I falling, thanks would render meet.
He, scarcely listening, turned his head,
And to his eldest son he said:
‘This house, these gardens, ’twere in vain,
Unless enabled to maintain,
That he should call them his;—my son,
Let us not leave this grace half done:’