And seldom o’er a breast so fair

Mantled a plaid with modest care,

And never brooch the folds combined

Above a heart more good and kind.

Her kindness and her worth to spy,

You need but gaze on Ellen’s eye;

Not Katrine, in her mirror blue,

Gives back the shaggy banks more true,

Than every freeborn glance confess’d

The guileless movements of her breast;