She then abounded, and had wealth to spare

For softening grief she once was doom’d to share;

Thus train’d in misery’s school, and taught to feel,

She would rejoice an orphan’s woes to heal: -

So Jesse thought, who look’d within her breast,

And thence conceived how bounteous minds are bless’d.

From her vast mansion look’d the Lady down

On humbler buildings of a busy town;

Thence came her friends of either sex, and all

With whom she lived on terms reciprocal: