Before I her beheld, the untutor’d mind
Still vacant lay, to mental beauty blind:
But when her angel form my sight had bless’d
The flame of passion instant fill’d my breast;
Through every vein the fire electric stole,
And took dominion of my inmost soul.
By her ... possess’d of every pow’r to please,
Each toilsome task was exercis’d with ease.
For me, comprising every charm of life,