? A stately bearing fitting to her place,’ ? And to seem dignified in all her dealings. ? As for her sympathies and tender feelings, ? She was so charitably solicitous ? She used to weep if she but saw a mouse ? Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. ? And she had little dogs she would be feeding ? With roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread. ? Sorely she wept if one of them were dead ? Or someone took a stick and made it smart ? She was all sentiment and tender heart. ? Her veil was gathered in a seemly way, ? Her nose was elegant, her eyes glass-grey ? Her mouth was very small, but soft and red, ? And certainly she had a well-shaped head, ? Almost a span across the brows, I own; ? She was indeed by no means undergrown. ? Her cloak, I noticed, had a graceful charm. ? She wore a coral trinket on her arm, ? A set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, ? Whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen ? On which there first was graven a crowned A,
? And lower, Amor vincit omnia.