THE BOROUGH. LETTER XX. THE POOR OF THE BOROUGH. ELLEN ORFORD. Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest.—SHAKSPEARE. "No charms she now can boast," 't is true, But other charmers wither too : "And she is old," the fact I know, And old will other heroines grow; Fill'd her pure mind with awe and dread, No tyrant father forced her hand; But, heroine then no more, She own'd the fault, and wept and pray'd, And humbly took the parish aid, And dwelt among the poor. : The Widow's Cottage Blind Ellen one Hers not the Sorrows or Adventures of Heroines- What these are, first described Deserted Wives; rash Lovers; courageous Damsels in desolated Mansions; in grievous PerplexityThese Evils, however severe, of short Duration Ellen's Story Her Employment in Childhood - First Love; first Adventure; its miserable Termination An Idiot Daughter A Husband- O Care in Business without Success - The Men's Despondency and its Effect - Their Children: how disposed of One particularly unfortunate - Fate of the Daughter Ellen keeps a School and is happy becomes blind: loses her School - Her Consolations. |