Grateful, sincere, good–natur’d, mild, humane,
Wise, and yet humble: witty, but not vain:
Above her Sex divine Clarinda soars,
Faultless herself, she Others Faults deplores:
Their Affectation treats with just Disdain,
And scorns the little Arts by which They reign.
How fair our Great–first–Parent’s lovely Frame,
When perfect from her Maker’s Hand she came!
Sweetly Majestick!–each endearing Grace,
Each Charm celestial blooming in her Face,
Her Form Clarinda’s–had her Soul been so,
She ne’er had sinn’d, nor Man been doom’d to Woe.
(Henry Baker)
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