The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils / Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies. To Which Is Added, a Collection of Letters, Written by the Pupils to Their Instructress, Their Friends, and Each Other.

by Hannah Webster Foster

And reason’s laws alone control.

Let others, lost in sloth forego

The joys thy early hours bestow:

Thy zephyrs far more sweets dispense,

Than Somnus yield to drowsy sense!

Mild as the beams of radiance shine,

May piety my powers refine:

Pure as the mimic pearls, that spread

Their liquid beauties o’er the mead:

And like yon rising orb of day,