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,