And feeling sinks as deep! See there the door

Of One, a Widow, left beneath a weight

Of blameless debt. On evil Fortune’s spite 5

She wasted no complaint, but strove to make

A just repayment, both for conscience-sake

And that herself and hers should stand upright

In the world’s eye. Her work when daylight failed

Paused not, and through the depth of night she kept 10

Such earnest vigils, that belief prevailed

With some, the noble Creature never slept;