To see in dress beyond our station clad, 760

And to behold among our neighbours fine,

More than perhaps became a wife of mine:

And now among her neighbours to explore,

And see her poorest of the very poor!—

I would describe it, but I bore a part,

Nor can explain the feelings of the heart;

Yet memory since has aided me to trace

The horrid features of that dismal place.

There she reclined unmoved, her bosom bare