And makes admiring friends of wondering foes.

Her dying husband to her care confides }

Affairs perplex’d; she reasons, she decides; 30}

If intricate her way, her walk discretion guides. }

Home to her country she returns alone,

Her health decay’d, her child, her husband, gone;

There she in peace reposes, there resumes

Her female duties, and in rest reblooms;

She is not one at common ills to droop,

Nor to vain murmuring will her spirit stoop.