The whole effect of Nature’s plaint,

When she had lost the perfect mould, 15

The like to whom she could not paint:

With wringing hands how she did cry,

And what she said, I know it, I.

I know she swore with raging mind,

Her kingdom only set apart, 20

There was no loss by law of kind

That could have gone so near her heart;

And this was chiefly all her pain: