And suffering vice compels her tear;

'Tis hers to soothe the ills below,

And bid life's fairer views appear.

To Woman's gentle kind we owe

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What comforts and delights us here;

They its gay hopes on youth bestow,

And care they soothe, and age they cheer.

THE BOROUGH.

Paulo majora canamus.—Virgil. [Ecl. IV. v. 1.]