Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!