Or wake the drooping spirits to delight.

“This blooming maid in Virtue’s path to guide

Th’ admiring parents all their care applied:

Her spotless soul to soft affection trained,

No voice untuned, no sickening folly stained:

Not fairer grows the lily of the vale,

Whose bosom opens to the vernal gale:

Her eyes unconscious of their fatal charms,

Thrilled every heart with exquisite alarms:

Her face, in Beauty’s sweet attraction drest,