Patience and sorrow strove

Who should express her goodliest.

SHAKESPEARE.

“No charms she now can boast,” - ’tis true,

But other charmers wither too:

“And she is old,” - the fact I know,

And old will other heroines grow;

But not like them has she been laid,

In ruin’d castle sore dismay’d;

Where naughty man and ghostly spright