“Write me some verses!”—and shall be obey’d.
The sacred mandate vibrates in my ears,
And fills my eyes with reverential tears.
For ever on her virtues let me dwell,
A Patriarch’s life too short her worth to tell.
Such manly sense to female softness join’d,
Her person grac’d, and dignified her mind,
That she in beauty, while she trod life’s stage,
A Venus seem’d—in intellect, a sage.
[Pg 149]