True to thy friendship, sacred to each trust,

In every duty most exactly just:

A princely wealth fill’d not thy heart with pride,

Thou nobly cast the glitt’ring bait aside;

Made it subservient to some useful aim,

Some gen’rous purpose, or some proper claim:

As bounteous streams in pleasing currents glide,

It roll’d, refreshing, like some charming tide;

Cheer’d the lone widow in her humble dome,

And scatter’d comfort o’er her lonely home.