With varied Learning some to cram the Mind;
But all I know of Letters, Form and Life
Seems ill to fit me for your Tracy’s Wife.
What are these girlish works, these quivering Notes,
With which we pain our fingers and our throats, 380
What graceful Manners, and an Air of Ease, }
A power of pleasing, a Desire to please, }
A Temper mildly sweet, and gay good things like these? }
Let them be seen, and they engage the while
The approving Eye and the assenting Smile—