But droops, alas! beneath superior woe;

For now strong Nature’s sympathetic chain

Tugs at his yearning heart with powerful strain:

His faithful wife, for ever doom’d to mourn

For him, alas! who never shall return,

To black Adversity’s approach exposed,

With want, and hardships unforeseen enclosed;

His lovely daughter, left without a friend

Her innocence to succour and defend,

By youth and indigence set forth a prey