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