Into that House, unfeared and unforeseen.

He had stepped forth, in time of urgent need,

The generous Surety of a Friend: and now

The widowed Father found that all his rights

In his paternal fields were undermined.

Landless he was and pennyless.—The dews

Of night and morn that wet the mountain sides,

The bright stars twinkling on their dusky tops,

Were conscious of the pain that drove him forth

From his own door, he knew not when—to range