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

To point the sure, the certain way

To honor and to truth!

Let thy unerring influence shed

Its blessings on Matilda’s head,

While piety and peace,

Thy genuine offspring round her wait,

And guard her through this transient state,

To joys that never cease!

May constant health its charms extend,

And fortune every blessing lend,