“Yes, I can give that story, not so well
As your old woman would the legend tell,
But as the facts are stated; and now hear
How ghosts advise, and widows persevere.”
When her lord died, who had so kind a heart, 90
That any woman would have grieved to part,
It had such influence on his widow’s mind,
That she the pleasures of the world resign’d,
Young as she was, and from the busy town