Our Lady's laggard Votaress,

Halting beneath the chestnut shade

To accomplish there her loveliness:

Nice aid maternal fingers lend;

A Sister serves with slacker hand;

Then, glittering like a star, she joins the festal band.

III

How blest (if truth may entertain

Coy fancy with a bolder strain)

The Helvetian Girl—who daily braves,