Her cheerful looks the light and gay approved:

The just beheld her, firm: the valiant, brave:

Her mirth the free, her silence pleased the grave:

Zeal heard her voice, and, as he preach’d aloud,

Well pleased he caught her whispers from the crowd,

(Those whispers, soothing-sweet to every ear,

Which some refuse to pay, but none to hear):

Shame fled her presence, at her gentle strain,

Care softly smiled, and Guilt forgot its pain:

The wretched thought, the happy found, her true,