Her noblest work she classes, O;
Her ‘prentice han’ she tried on man,
And then she made the lasses, O.
Burns, “Green Grow,” etc.
This thought was anticipated in “Cupid’s Whirligig,” a play by Edward Sharpham, first printed in 1607: “Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.”
“But, oh! eternity’s too short
To utter all Thy praise.”
So wrote Addison, in the well-known hymn. Young writes in the “Christian Triumph,”—
“Eternity, too short to speak Thy praise!
Or fathom Thy profound of love to man!”