This benefactress is no more!

And though my eyes no light bestow

They’ll long with tears her loss deplore!

“Yet still where’er my footsteps bend,

My helpless state has found a friend.

“How sweet the pity of the good!

How grateful is their praise!

How every sorrow is subdued,

When they applaud my lays!

“The illustrious patrons I have found,