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by Unknown

(FROM “THE SINLESS CHILD.”)

OU speak of Hobert’s second wife,

A lofty dame and bold:

I like not her forbidding air,

And forehead high and cold.

The orphans have no cause for grief,

She dare not give it now,

Though nothing but a ghostly fear

Her heart of pride could bow.