A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded;

XLIV.

Rich, noble, but an orphan—left an only

Child to the care of guardians good and kind—

But still her aspect had an air so lonely;

Blood is not water; and where shall we find

Feelings of Youth like those which overthrown lie

By Death, when we are left, alas! behind,

To feel, in friendless palaces, a home