And growing leaves of seventeen
Are round her;—and half hid, half seen,
A violet flower;
Nursed by the virtues she hath been
From childhood's hour.
Halleck.
52. Blest with temper whose unclouded ray
Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day:
Spleen, vapors, or small-pox, above them all,
And mistress of herself though china fall.