Meek tho’ indulged, and modest tho’ approv’d,

The Sick, the Poor, the suffering and oppress’d

Could all the Grandsire’s liberal Soul attest;

While the more griev’d, disturb[‘d] and doubtful sought

The Widow’s Aid, a Mind with Wisdom fraught,

And from the Sister-Spirit found relief 880

In all the various pangs of mental Grief.

All this the Virgin saw, and she became

Kind as the father, prudent as the dame;

Pleas’d with the Life she liv’d, the Joy she felt,