Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JANE HOLLYBRAND; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED: THE GOOD YOUNG SQUIRE, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT


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JANE HOLLYBRAND; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED: THE GOOD YOUNG SQUIRE, by                    
First Line: It hap'd a gentle youth - a lordly heir
Last Line: And forth they'd come.
Subject(s): Clergy; Friendship; Guests; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Visiting


IT hap'd a gentle youth—a lordly heir
To vast domains—did annually repair
Unto this country mansion, to renew
His pleasant visits to his Uncle Prew:
The fair-hair'd stripling proved a welcome guest,
For there was something in his generous breast
Which won for him the universal mark
(From Bishop Butler, to the parish-clerk),
Of friendship—nay, the love of one and all;
The village matrons, all were wont to call
Him "the young Squire"; and as he pass'd their way
They'd call their daughters from the washing-tray,
Or spinning-wheel, or the old-fashion'd loom,
Or in the midst of scrubbing out a room,
Or at the pigs' sty—where they were intent
Upon the beast, which paid the yearly rent;
And forth they'd come.





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