T’her poor dear mother she’d read the Sunday book,

Turn up her eyes and with a solemn look—

Yet with a kind of smile—say this (and more)—

“O Lord, have mercy on the sick, and poor!”

[196] The proper title of this picture was, no doubt, “The birth of our Saviour.”

[197] Affliction.

XII.

Jane now began (as Arnold wish’d) to arrange

Her little wardrobe, for th’ approaching change.

From humble life she soon was to withdraw