Was she a child in love? - a miss at school?
Doubts any mortal, if a change of state
Dissolves all claims and ties of earlier date?”
The Rector doubted, for he came to mourn
A sister dead, and with a wife return:
Lucy with heart unchanged received the youth,
True in herself, confiding in his truth;
But own’d her mother’s change; the haughty dame
Pour’d strong contempt upon the youthful flame;
She firmly vow’d her purpose to pursue,