With those a favourite, and with these a queen;

She could her parts assume, and condescend

To friends more humble while an humble friend;

And thus a welcome, lively guest could pass,

Threading her pleasant way from class to class.

"Her reputation?"—That was like her wit,

And seem'd her manner and her state to fit;

Something there was—what, none presumed to say:

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Clouds lightly passing on a smiling day—