And restrain the vague desire?

Easily a pious training

And a stedfast outward power

Would supplant the weeds and cherish,

In their stead, each opening flower. 80

Thus the fearless Lamb-deliv’rer,

Woman-grown, meek-hearted, sage,

May become a blest example

For her sex, of every age.[293]

Watchful as a wheeling eagle, 85