“I have had wounds, and some that never heal,
What bodies suffer, and what spirits feel;
But he is gone who gave them, he is fled
To his account! and my revenge is dead— 950
Yet is it duty, though with shame, to give
My sex a lesson—let my story live;
For, if no ghost the promised visit paid, }
Still was a deep and strong impression made, }
That wisdom had approved, and prudence had obey’d; }
But from another world that warning came,