Since pleasure still waits on the smile of content?
Will the clouds soon disperse, if indignant I frown?
And the rain cease in torrents the village to drown?
Will the thunder's loud peal be then hush'd into peace?
And the storm, at my bidding, its violence cease?
Will the sun for my anger discover its ray,
And at once all the beauties of nature display?
Then Ellen, pray tell me, what joy should I find,
In the discord of passion, the storm of the mind?
Though the elements will not resign to my sway,
My temper, I trust, reason's voice shall obey;
Let me make to my fate my desires resign,
And the joys of contentment will ever be mine.
THE END.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
On page 11, author's instruction to "see the following page" for an illustration (she left them [see the following page],) is no longer accurate as images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break.
On page 14, "attenive" corrected to be "attentive" (as attentive as).
Other variable spellings within the text retained, including:
- "awkward" and "aukward"
- "fire-place" and "fireplace"
- "half-bound," "half-bd," and "half bd"
- "scissors" and "scissars"