And O! in this be ended all my shame!

“Like the first being of my sex I fell, }

Tempted, and with the tempter doom’d to dwell— }

He was the master-fiend, and where he reign’d was hell.” 960}


This was her last, for she described no more

The rankling feelings of a mind so sore,

But died in peace.—One moral let us draw,

Be it a ghost or not the lady saw.

If our discretion tells us how to live,