The moles now numbered three, her second daughter and third child, Maria, having been born on 1st July 1779.
Stand forth, ye elves! and plead your mother’s cause,
Ye little magnets, whose soft influence draws
Me from a point where every gentle breeze
Wafted my bark to happiness and ease—
Sends me adventurous on a larger main,
In hopes that you may profit by my gain.
Have I been hasty? Am I, then, to blame?
Answer, all ye who own a parent’s name!
Thus have I tired you with an untaught muse,