Whilst Gay's unhappy Fate thy Ear attends, <br />Thy Heart, indignant, scorns his faithless Friends; <br />Thy gen'rous Heart, which never learnt the Way, <br />A Friend or to deceive, or to betray: <br />With Honour and Integrity so blest, <br />Not Law, infectious, can pollute thy Breast: <br />With Justice and Humanity endow'd, <br />You shine, distinguish'd, 'midst a venal Croud.<br /><br />Mary Barber<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-robert-barber-esq-deputy-to-the-treasurer-s-remembrancer-in-the-court-of-exchequer/
