A docile girl she proved, of moping vein,

Slow in her motions, haughty in her air;

Some mention'd trivial blame, or slightly frown'd;

Forth to the world she went, her heavenly birth it own'd.

V.

The next, a son, I bred a Mussulman;

With creeds and dogmas I was hard bested,

For which was right or wrong I could not tell,

So I resolved my offspring should be bred

As various as their lives—the lad I loved,