And borne her incense to the Eternal’s throne,
For her new coronation now prepare!
How welcome! how caressed!
Among the blest!
And first mankind’s great mother rose—
‘Give way, ye crowding souls!’ said she,
‘That I the second of my race may see!’”
Notwithstanding our high veneration for Samuel Wesley, we feel bound to say that such lines are fulsome foolishness. Upon the whole, Mary was a good woman, but Wesley’s eulogy of her is sadly excessive:—
“Would virtue take a shape, she’d choose to appear,
And think, and speak, and dress, and live like her.