Of diamond, slipping flame from fifty slants.

In short, the father of the family

Took his departure also from our scene,

Leaving a fat succession to his heir

Monsieur Léonce Miranda,—"fortunate,

If ever man was, in a father's death,"

(So commented the world,—not he, too kind,

Could that be, rather than scarce kind enough)

Indisputably fortunate so far,

That little of incumbrance in his path,