Lucy was present when her sister died,

Heiress to duties that she ill supplied:

There were no mutual feelings, sister arts,

No kindred taste, nor intercourse of hearts:

When in the mirror play’d the matron’s smile,

The maiden’s thoughts were traveling all the while;

And when desired to speak, she sigh’d to find

Her pause offended; “Envy made her blind:

Tasteless she was, nor had a claim in life

Above the station of a rector’s wife;