The best of parents blest my younger days;
What others teach with frowns, they taught with praise.
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"Early and unfinished epsile to a friend", as reported by John Sim in The Poetical Works of William Julius Mickle (London, 1806), p. x, and as quoted by Sister M. Eustace in William Julius Mickle (1734–1788): A Critical Study (The Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., 1937), p. 2