Or Lot's wife done in salt,—or what you will;—
My similes are gathered in a heap,
So pick and choose—perhaps you'll be content
With a carved lady on a monument.
LXIX.
And lo! a fifth appears;—and what is she?
A lady of a "certain age,"[352] which means
Certainly agéd—what her years might be
I know not, never counting past their teens;
But there she slept, not quite so fair to see,