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

Pride or envy never comes.

Come Matilda; ruddy morn

Tempts us o’er the spacious lawn;

Spring’s reviving charms invite

Every sense to taste delight;

Such delights as never cloy,

Health and innocence enjoy.

Youth’s the spring-time of our years,

Short the rapid scene appears;

Let’s improve the fleeting hours,