/// Copley painted him, Gilbert DeBlois,
a rich merchant. (Not noble— bourgeois.)
They’d, in Boston, been neighbors.
Now, in London, John labors
to portray the friend Gilbert he saw.
/// Both these men backed the loyalist side,
and had never their King’s rule denied.
When the Yankees revolted,
back to London they bolted.
Chose their fellow Brits in that divide.
/// Copley painted him, Gilbert DeBlois,
a rich merchant. (Not noble— bourgeois.)
They’d, in Boston, been neighbors.
Now, in London, John labors
to portray the friend Gilbert he saw.
/// Both these men backed the loyalist side,
and had never their King’s rule denied.
When the Yankees revolted,
back to London they bolted.
Chose their fellow Brits in that divide.