XXII + 

I have known beauties cold and raw + 

As Winter in their purity, + 

Striking the intellect with awe + 

By dull insensibility, + 

And I admired their common sense + 

And natural benevolence, + 

But, I acknowledge, from them fled; + 

For on their brows I trembling read + 

The inscription o’er the gates of Hell + 

“Abandon hope for ever here!” + 

Love to inspire doth woe appear + 

To such⁠—delightful to repel. + 

Perchance upon the Neva e’en + 

Similar dames ye may have seen. + 