“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,