The learn’d confess’d that she her merits knew:
The rich - could they a constant friend condemn?
The poor believed - for who should flatter them?
Thus on her name though all disgrace attend,
In every creature she beholds a friend.
1807
“REFLECTIONS”.
UPON THE SUBJECT -
Quid juvat errores, mersa jam puppe, fateri?
Quid lacrymae delicta juvant commissa secutae?