THE
EFFECTS of GRATITUDE
TIMEOUSLY APPLIED.
"She looks, methinks,
Of old Acaſto's line; and to my mind
Recalls that patron of my happy life,
From whom my liberal fortune took its riſe;
Now to the duſt gone down; his houſes, lands,
And once fair-ſpreading family, diſſolv'd.
Romantic wiſh! would this the daughter were!
When, ſtrict enquiring, from herſelf he found
She was the ſame, the daughter of his friend,
Of bountiful Acaſto; who can ſpeak
The mingled paſſions that ſurpris'd his heart,
And thro’ his nerves in ſhivering tranſport ran?
And art thou then Acaſto's dear remains!
She, whom my reſtleſs gratitude has ſought
So long in vain?
Tho’ poverty's cold wind, and cruſhing rain,
Beat keen, and heavy, on thy tender years?
O let me now, into a richer ſoil,
Tranſplant thee ſafe!"
CLAUDIAN and Curio were two young perſons educated in the ſame houſe, and brought up to the ſame buſineſs, under the ſame maſter; but with this difference, that Claudian was the ſon, the other the ſervant
