A Man more kindly, in his careless way,
  Than many who profess a higher creed;
Whose fickle love might change from day to day,
  And yet be faithful to a friend in need;
Whose manners covered, through life’s outs and ins,
Like charity, a multitude of sins.

A man of honor, too, as such things go;
  Discreet and secret—qualities of use—...