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

Inspiring new delight:

Beclad with every various charm

To please the eye, the fancy warm,

And animate the sight.

But youth no kind renewal knows;

Swiftly the blooming season goes,

And brings the frost of age!

No more the vernal sun appears,

To gild the painful round of years,

And wintry damps assuage.