In joyless leisure wastes his life away?
In him the flame of early fancy shone;
His genuine worth his old companions own;
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In childhood and in youth their chief confess’d,
His master’s pride, his pattern to the rest.
Now, far aloof retiring from the strife
Of busy talents, and of active life,
As from the loop-holes of retreat he views
Our stage, verse, pamphlets, politics, and news,