Stately and proud she looks around

With a fierce, defiant stare;

Wild words deform her reckless speech,

Her laugh has a sadness tears never reach.

Whom should she fear on earth? Can fate

One direr torment lend

To her few little years of glitter and gloom

With the sad old story to end,

When the spectres of Loneliness, Want, and Pain

Shall arise one night with Death in their train?